Month: July 2015
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Vancouver – Canada’s most livable city
Read more: Vancouver – Canada’s most livable cityVancouver is ranked as the most livable city in Canada, and is rated number 5 in the world! I’m sure that being exposed to beautiful scenery each day – mountains and water – certainly helps to make the city an easy place to live. We think that Toronto could learn some lessons from Vancouver to…
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Cool with a “K” Ketchikan
Read more: Cool with a “K” Ketchikan“Next stop… Ketchikan, Alaska!” We already learned a bit about the Tlingit Natives in Hoonah, but also wanted to learn about the Haida tribe. Ketchikan was the perfect place to do just that! When I did some research, I found out that the Totem Bight State Park was one of the top three things to…
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Eagles, Salmon, and Whales, Oh My!
Read more: Eagles, Salmon, and Whales, Oh My!“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys.” – Chief Dan George Chief Dan George was a Native actor, poet,…
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Cities of the Midnight Sun
Read more: Cities of the Midnight SunThere are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated…
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Alaska Ahoy!
Read more: Alaska Ahoy!Our time in Hawaii was very relaxing, but eventually it was time to move on. What better way to transition out of “resort mode” than to take an Alaskan Cruise? After a short, 5 hour flight from Hawaii we landed on the western shores of Canada in Vancouver. We had a very quick turn around…