…my first ever travel story was published in The Ottawa Citizen. Time flies, huh?
Archive for January, 2011
Five Years Ago This Week…
Posted in Tangents, tagged Writing on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Reading David Foster Wallace
Posted in Tangents, tagged Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace, Writing on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Over the course of a few weeks last year, from mid-November to late December, I read my way through David Foster Wallace’s second essay collection, Consider the Lobster — and I’ve been trying to gather my thoughts and write something coherent about it ever since. Trouble is, I was so overwhelmingly impressed by the book [...]
New Blog: Travelers North
Posted in Updates, tagged Travelers North on January 25, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A quick (but pretty major) update on my end: I launched a new blog this morning, Travelers North. The aim is to offer a mixture of photos, links, personal notes and practical guidebook-style information about travel in Alaska, the Yukon and (eventually) NWT, Nunavut and beyond. I’m pretty excited about it. The accompanying Twitter feed [...]
That’s What I Call a Roadside Attraction
Posted in Photos, tagged Alaska, Denali, Mt McKinley, Road Trips on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So instead of retracing our steps from Anchorage up the Glenn Highway and along the Tok Cut-off to the Alaska Highway, we took a last-minute detour up the Parks Highway to Fairbanks, then headed south to Tok along the Richardson Highway. It was worth the detour: We had clear views of Mt. McKinley for much [...]
Off to Anchorage
Posted in Updates, tagged Alaska, Anchorage, Beer, Road Trips on January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m hitting the highway first thing tomorrow morning, headed for Alaska’s biggest city and something the good folks there like to call “Beer Week.” Yeah, story research is hard, right? Stay tuned.
Introducing Unwired Wednesdays
Posted in Tangents, tagged Internet, Unwired Wednesday on January 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
For a few months now — heck, for maybe a year or two — I’ve been feeling a little bit oppressed by my internet connection. Yes, it’s the way I make my living, and yes, it’s a weird and wonderful world in many ways, one that has connected me to a lot of great people. [...]
