Destination – Portland Island - A Park for all Seasons

Destination – Portland Island – A Park for all Seasons

For quiet hikes or island walks without seeing a soul, for pocket beaches perfect for swimming, for delving into island history, for checking out flora and fauna, for beautiful sce...

Riding the Rails – The Indian Pacific

Riding the Rails – The Indian Pacific

(First appeared on the website www.wavejourney.com, 4/10. Second rights, Just for Canadian Doctors, and Just for Canadian Dentists Magazines, 9/10.) I’m in the Aussie outback gho...

Turtle Trekking - In Search of Costa Rica's Arribadas

Turtle Trekking – In Search of Costa Rica’s Arribadas

(First appeared in Westworld Magazine, 6/04,second rights, website www.travelwriterstales.com.) Photos by Casa Romantica Beneath a dense black ledge of clouds a full moon hoists it...

Hoodoo Hunting in Alberta

Hoodoo Hunting in Alberta

(First appeared on the www.touristtravel.com website, 7/06 and www.takeoffeh.com on 8/06.) We were no larger than specks of pepper in the dinosaur’s mouth. Drumheller really does...

Delving down under

Delving down under

If I had to come up with one word to describe Australia, it would have to be ‘beaches’. Nonstop beaches going on forever. If I had to come up with a second word, it mig...

Adventure


White Water and White Knuckles
Nov 16, 2010 | by Cherie | 2 Comments | Read →

For Traveler Magazine Question: How do two ‘girlfriends’ celebrate their 60th birthdays? Answer: Well it obviously has to be naked bungy jumping or whitewater rafting. Given ou...

Two Wheeled Tourism – cycling New Zealand’s North Island
Nov 16, 2010 | by Cherie | No Comments | Read →

(First appeared on www.touristtravel.com, 4/07 second rights Vancouver Sun 5/07.) Maori legend has it that at the site of the famous pohutukawa tree located at Cape Reinga, Maori s...

Turtle Trekking – In Search of Costa Rica’s Arribadas
Nov 16, 2010 | by Cherie | No Comments | Read →

(First appeared in Westworld Magazine, 6/04,second rights, website www.travelwriterstales.com.) Photos by Casa Romantica Beneath a dense black ledge of clouds a full moon hoists it...

Patagonia Passage
Apr 22, 2009 | by Cherie | No Comments | Read →

The Traveler text and photography by Cherie Thiessen I hold unto the side of the building to prevent the unrelenting Puerto Natales wind from turfing me onto the busy road. It has ...

On the Water


Destination – The Perfect Penders
Feb 11, 2011 | by Cherie | 2 Comments | Read →

North and South Pender combined may only be 36.6 sq. kilometres – but trust me – lots of attractions are crammed into these compact islands. Start with three marinas, o...

Destination – Portland Island – A Park for all Seasons
Feb 11, 2011 | by Cherie | No Comments | Read →

For quiet hikes or island walks without seeing a soul, for pocket beaches perfect for swimming, for delving into island history, for checking out flora and fauna, for beautiful sce...

A Saturna Sojourn
Feb 9, 2011 | by Cherie | No Comments | Read →

We can never figure out why boaters don’t spend more time at Saturna’s Winter Cove. It’s packed every July 1st, during the annual lamb barbecue, but a day later most anchors ...

Cruising to Quebec’s Madeleine Islands on board the Vacancier
Jul 8, 2009 | by Cherie | 3 Comments | Read →

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Book Reviews

The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger Publisher: Viking Price: $32.50 hardcover ISBN: 978-067-002174-1 Page count: 192 pp. Size: 5 ½  x 8 ½ Released: May You could call t...

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Riding the Rails – The Indian Pacific
Riding the Rails – The Indian Pacific

(First appeared on the website www.wavejourney.com, 4/10. Second rights, Just for Canadian Doctors, and Just for Canadian Dentists Magazines, 9/10.) I’m in the Aussie outback gho...

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Quebec’s Magical Magdelens
Quebec’s Magical Magdelens

(First appeared on the website www.wavejourney.com, and longer story at www.transitionsabroad.com) Quebec’s Magdalen Islands, curled in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ha...

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