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What Are Your Travel Plans This Summer?

By //  by Katja Wulfers 2 Comments

From road trips, to exploring different parts of Canada and the USA, to jetting off to Paris or Australia, summer vacations are the time to create memories to last for years. Card games in the back of the car, fighting over the last Oreo cookie — which, as a rule, should always go to mom — falling into a comfy mattress, or crawling into a tent at night; these are moments we all wish could last forever during endless, summer days and nights filled with stars or city lights. What are your …

Filed Under: Canada, Disney, Travel, United States Tagged With: Atlantic City, Boston Freedom Trail, British Columbia, Chicago, Disney World, family travel ideas, Prince Edward Island, road trips across Canada, road trips across the USA, Six Flags America, Ucluelet, visit PEI, Wrigley Stadium

48 Hours in Vancouver

By //  by Katja Wulfers 1 Comment

Imagine you’ve booked a ski holiday in Whistler, but the best flight to the west coast has you arriving on Friday and your lodging and lessons don’t begin until Monday. What are your options? Many British Columbians might be easier going than those of us scurrying down Bay or Wall Street, but unrolling a sleeping bag and firing up a camp stove in front of the Chateau Whistler is frowned upon. Spend the weekend in Vancouver instead and avoid arrest and frostbite.  48-hours is not enough …

Filed Under: British Columbia, Canada, Holidays, Tips & Advice, Travel Tagged With: 48 hours in Vancouver, Beaucoup Bakery, British Columbia, Canada, Capilano Suspension bridge, explore BC, Gastown, Granville Island, Granville Island Brewing, Hello BC, Lonsdale Quay Market, Stanley Park, Travel, vacation, Vancouver, weekend getaway

ghost towns of Canada

Ghost Towns Of Canada

By //  by Katja Wulfers 15 Comments

For those of us who came of age during the Freddy Krueger and “Hollywood Chainsaw Hooker” era - I'm guessing the person who green-lit that movie is now working as the set designer for a musical comedy remake of Hamlet at a backwoods dinner theatre - we see shadows where there aren't any, and hear ghostly car radios playing from abandoned vehicles. Perhaps it’s a fascination with sad and eerie stories, or maybe the romance of exploring derelict ruins, but visits to the ghost towns of Canada have …

Filed Under: Canada, Travel Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, farming, fishing, forestry, ghost towns, horror movies, lumber, Manitoba, mining, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan

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