We’re jubilados (Spanish for retirees) on the alert for inspiration from our travels be they near (the kitchen) or far (Cape Horn)
An old Mexican proverb says, El amor entra por los ojos, “Love comes through the eyes.” Is this what life could be, wakening to the high-altitude light
“Is there a photo you have to have from this trip?” our guide Doug asked in Anchorage at the introductory dinner to our photo tour. “Whatever
On a trail near Back Cove on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland late on a summer afternoon in 2008, Jack Matthews and Alex Lui showed
Of all our wildlife encounters in Alaska—a brown bear ambling through the sedge grass fifty metres from us at Chinitna Bay in Lake Clark National
In art galleries, at markets and on street corners in Oaxaca, you see all sorts of alebrijes, brightly coloured Mexican sculptures of fantastical creatures, simple and affordable, refined
Today, June 25, is the 120th birthday of George Orwell, a man who fought against the abuse of language, the decline and fall of reason and the degradation
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