Niagara Falls

My story about our visit to the amazing Niagara Falls, as part of the Adventure World media trip, is published in today's Press/Stuff (click here to read).

Photos, of course, by the talented Animator.

Terrific Toronto

One of three Toronto stories from the Adventure World media trip last year is published in the  NZ Woman's Weekly (click here to read).

Btw, check us out sitting in the first O of the iconic Toronto sign...

Snow - and a grizzly bear!

An early start from Jasper for the drive to the mind-blowing Columbia Icefield, in the heart of The Rocky Mountains World Heritage Site. Where it was SNOWING!!! Three days ago we were soaking up 28 degree temperatures in Vancouver like wasps and today we are flinging snowballs at each other..

Later, we hopped aboard an Ice Explorer (shades of Ice Road Truckers) which took us up to the Athabasca Glacier. Did I also mention it was snowing? It was wild.

Late afternooon, as we drove to Lake Louise, someone spotted this baby grizzly bear just casually doing whatever it is grizzlies do. Apologies for the poor photo but I was asleep and those bears move fast.

And this is the view from our window at the stunning Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Sometimes, just sometimes, I love my life.

   

Canada - and New York City, baby!

It's been a bit of a slow start to the year, travel wise, which is fine by me, given that I spent so much of last year climbing on and off planes, filling out stupid immigration forms and trying to remember it all sufficiently to write innumerable stories.

Besides, having multiple contracts means I haven't actually been able to leave town. But later next week that changes when we fly to Vancouver for the glorious nine day Adventure World Western Explorer trip from Vancouver to Calgary on the Rocky Mountaineer train, which has been called one of the world's best train trips. Then we fly to Toronto for more adventures, including dinner with a cousin I've never met.

Thanks to the lovely folk at Adventure World for this media trip - and for letting the Animator come too. We are super excited.

But that's not all. As I have an, um, milestone birthday hovering on the horizon, and I spent the last milestone birthday in New York, it seemed rude not to do the same. So after we're done with Toronto we fly to my favourite city in the world for four nights of eating, drinking, shopping and trying to forget how old I am. What's more, I am determined that NO work will be done on this leg; this is strictly a holiday (even as I type those words, I know I will end up writing something about it).

But yeah, how exciting is that? Now I just have to get a ridiculous amount of deadlines out of the way before I can get my head into travel mode...