Traveling can be an exhausting business. After White Sands and the long drive through burning hills, we stopped just north of Albuquerque for the night. If you travel by RV, the casinos can be a great place to stop. They’ll take you at all hours (I think it was nearly 2 am for us) and […]
Continue ReadingA Journey into Egypt: Part IV
Back in town, the afternoon was left to us to seek our own entertainment. One of Luxor’s wonderful attractions is the local bazaar. For some reason, the smells and sounds of this town reached deep within me and I was more interested in the life and culture that was here now than the monuments of […]
Continue ReadingA Journey into Egypt: Part III
Our final day in Cairo brought us to the great expectation of any journey to Egypt – the Giza Plateau and the Great Pyramid. It is impossible to fully comprehend the scale of the Great Pyramid until you stand beside it. The blocks of stone at the base were enormous. Each stone was more than […]
Continue ReadingA Journey into Egypt: Part I
20 years ago this month, I embarked on my first journey abroad. I was so young, and so inexperienced. Until that cold March day, I had never gone beyond 100 miles of my birthplace. I remember walking through Terminal 1 at the Toronto airport knowing that everything I had ever known and believed about life […]
Continue ReadingTraveling in January
Hopewell Rocks, 8×10, acrylic In the early part of this decade, my husband and I had very little money for travel, so we took advantage of trips with his company to go to conferences and shows. I have seen some pretty interesting places in Canada and the U.S. as a result. Every January, one particular […]
Continue ReadingA Little Travel Review
Well, a little snow flies outside my window. It is a good time of year to stay in, light a fire and muse about the experiences of the warmer days gone by. Before setting up this blog, I did a series of travels posts on my website. I’d like to share those posts here as […]
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