Six Months in South Africa: Tree Dassie Trail, Addo Elephant National Park

  Hiking Tree Dassie Trail, Addo Elephant National Park, took us through an indigenous coastal rainforest and offered sightings of forest birds, such as Cape batis, chorister robin-chat, black-ba...

Hiking Wentworth, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia was ablaze with autumn’s glorious hues this past Thanksgiving Weekend. To earn – and the next day, to wear off! – our Thanksgiving roast chicken dinner, Vilis and I hiked in the ...

Butter Trail, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia: A Winter Walk

Blue sky. White puffy clouds. Ice-covered bay. All these enticed me to walk a few kilometres of the Butter Trail on a late winter afternoon six days before the spring equinox. The Butter Trail is a se...

Rocky Mountain Hiking/Backpacking: Guest Post

Hi, I’m not Magi. I’m her son, Dainis. This is a “guest post” about a trip I took out to the Jasper area of the Rocky Mountains (near the Alberta-British Columbia border). Having recently fini...