Season 2

In early 2017, My Lucky Half (MLH)* and I put our house on the market. It sold quickly, and we were nestless. We were also…

We left Halifax in May 2017, with MLH’s stuff taking up two thirds of the real estate in the car….. Close to 1,000 km later,…

Another rainy day in Ottawa was a perfect excuse to go to Le Nordik Spa, where we wandered from sauna to pool to steam room…

It was hot and humid as we left Toronto for Oakville, 45 minutes to the West on Lake Ontario, which is lovely to look at…

In Calgary, we stayed in a modern Airbnb apartment in a ‘gentrified’ part of town which has a high number of Cantonese speakers, Ukrainians and…

Most of our stay in The Rockies was in Golden, British Columbia. It is an unpretentious mill and railway town, and I would recommend it to…

One and a half hours South of Calgary is the UNESCO World Heritage site, Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. As we drove South the topography changed…

Wildfires were burning in the BC interior the day we left, so we kept the radio on for road closures, but our journey through the…

In Vancouver we had a couple of days staying with another cousin and then set off for the ferry to Vancouver Island and Victoria. On…

We visited Vancouver a few years ago and know it is a clean, pleasant, walking and bike-friendly city blessed with ocean on one side and…

At the US border, the only thing which interested the border guard was whether we had any fruits and vegetables with us. A few kilometres…

California is big. We noticed scale in The Avenue of the Giants, the giant redwood forest, in the North of the state. The trees are…

“Sin City Gets its Just Reward” was one of the newspaper headlines in 1906, after an earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city. A…

Coming out of the flat agricultural land of the Central Valley, through the hills and down into Los Angeles, you might feel you were in…

Nature supplied MLH’s birthday gift. An eclipse of the sun (partial, but still) in the morning and a glorious afternoon on sandy Santa Monica beach,…

We were driving into an expanded and improved San Diego. We remembered a blah city with little character and with a lot of violence. In…

On the way to Arizona, MLH was thrilled to stop at the Date Farm Oasis in Thermal, California, and see where all those dates he…

Here are my impressions of Texas, a state larger than Spain. El Paso is tucked into the Westernmost tip of Texas, just under the state…

Yo Bro, where y’at? If Texas is your large, brash uncle with loud opinions who gets away with smoking a cigar in the living room…

As we headed over the vibrant green flatlands of the American South to Memphis, Tennessee, some of the United States’ undercurrent of social and political…

We made our way through Raleigh, North Carolina, to the coast of Virginia and Maryland. You can’t see much from the highway because they line…

New York was the final Nestless and Restless stop, and a struggle to get there, two hours to get from the main highway over the…