https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIaP-6c6jU Maine ’s Atlantic coast shares a lot in common with Canada’s New Brunswick and Nova Scotia...

A second travel segment rounding up some of the historical and contemporary anecdotes unique to New York State and its vast region to the...

Here I have added The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims, Prologue and Chapter 1 (draft version, PDF). Previous blogs posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPu3v4cCbu4 This narrative focuses on the pre-revolutionary war period in American History that saw...

VIDEO Tap photo for YouTube presentation........ Narrative I appreciate universities, colleges, and ivory towers of learning –- freedom...

Youtube video (Blog 14) 5 min. Jeb Elison did not tarry long in Fredericton. Curiosity drove him first downriver to the large New...

Video Presentation (tap to YouTube, 8 min). (to be continued) #NewBrunswick #farming #Travel #BayofFundy #Journey #fall #Autumn #photography

Again, I offer a half-hearted disclaimer. The following is not an entirely fictional or non-fictional account. Jeb (my alter ego) and...

Visitors to Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula must cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca

I intended to complete this blog’s focus on last October's journey through western Canada by the Memorial Day weekend 2017. However,...

Cowboy Valley, Heart of BC I had lunch of sorts at the Coldwater Hotel in Merritt, British Columbia, located 50 miles south of Kamloops...

Yoho, the easternmost national park in British Columbia, is a name that anyone can like, while one of its landmark sites, Takakkaw Falls,...

Travel in words and pictures across the Canadian Rockies

Bike to Lake Minnewanka, Alberta, Canada

Peyto Lake (pronounced pee-toh) is a turquoise pee pool for the gods not far from Banff, Alberta Canada. That is one way to look at it. ...

"Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak." Blaise Pascal, Penses, Section II This is the first of two blogs this week...

"To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher." Pascal, Pensees, Sect.1 Another of Pascal's remarks, written only a few...

A Glance at the Columbia Glacier, Alberta, Canada When I glance at a picture, especially a photograph (whether on a wall or posted on a...

After a diversion in last week's blog - Women's March on Washington D.C. 2017- I turn away from musing on the foibles and fumings of...

Jasper Park may be the 10th largest park in Canada, but all of the more sprawling parks are located further north in the almost...