Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
If there’s one thing I want you to know about planning a Le Boat girls trip on the Rideau Canal, it’s this: you can absolutely do it. Yes, you. If I — a vertically challenged woman who has actively avoided parallel parking for 36 years — can captain a 50-foot, five-bedroom Le Boat houseboat through …
“You’re going where?”, my friend asked with a perplexed look on her face. “Mississauga,” I said. “But why? What’s in Mississauga?”. Ah, dear friend, a lot as it turns out. For the travel deprived and cabin fevered amongst us, Mississauga happens to be the perfect place to dip your toes back into exploration. As someone …
I believe in love. I am fully, completely, and with a giddy, fluttery heart in love with love. It’s hard for me to explain how important it is for me to know that. My heart has been through a lot lately, and it would be easy to let cynicism guide me. It wasn’t a delivery …
This was supposed to be an article about skydiving in Ottawa but as often happens, the story I intend to write and the story that gets written is often wildly different. And oh my god, doesn’t that last sentence just sum up the last twenty years of my life. So, apologies in advance if you …
If you’ve ever asked yourself why visit Cape Breton when there’s a whole world out there, girl, I hear you. I asked myself the same thing for about twenty years. I was wrong about so much. Embarrassingly, eye-rollingly wrong. Cape Breton, as it happens, is the travel prescription you didn’t know you needed. So call …
I’ve never really understood the concept of a staycation, going so far as to poo-poo the idea for years thinking they were rather lame. I always felt that in order to get the benefits of a vacation you must first travel some great distance that requires you to complain at length about the journey. Then, …
I’ll admit it: I used to be a bit of a camping snob. If it didn’t come with a plug-in, a pool, or some sort of gourmet s’mores bar, I wasn’t interested. But after visiting a few of Ontario’s provincial parks on a solo RV adventure, I’ve officially been converted. These parks do more than …
Is Rocky Mountaineer worth it? WelI, I can tell you that I have over 800 photos from three days on the Rocky Mountaineer and not one of them does it justice. Partly because it is genuinely impossible to photograph. The Canadian Rockies move past the glass dome in a way that makes your camera feel …
