A few summer travel pics

A photographic round-up of my summer of travel.

The Occidental Tourist

Singapore has a reputation for being a pretty rigid place, where gum chewing is against the law. From my brief visit, it didn’t seem so bad.

Cattlecars of the Sky, redux

Flying New York to Vancouver, with a stopover in Hell.

To the commune

Summer travels: wandering in Boston and New York.

The Best and Worst of Boston

Summer travels: Culture – the good and the bad – in Boston.

Fredericton: Noble daughter of the forest

I have entered, for the first time in my life, the Atlantic time zone, having arrived in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Wednesday morning. The trip was uneventful. I spent so much time and energy packing my bike in one box and my panniers in another – making sure that the weights and dimensions were not [...]

Ranch Undressing

I spent the past weekend at a ranch, fifteen kilometres south-east of Spences Bridge, that belongs to a couple of gentleman farmers of my acquaintance. The ranch, a small orchard operation, is a peach-shaped property near a sharp bend in the Nicola River, a tributary of the Thompson, which in turn feeds the Fraser, the [...]

Spring Break in San Francisco

I’ve just returned from a quick trip to San Francisco, a week by the bay, where I was satisfyingly warmed by the California sun after months of (relative) freezing in Vancouver. Either I’m getting old and soft, or spending much of last winter in Costa Rica has removed my usual winter hardiness. Or both. Whatever. [...]