Photo taken at Punalu’u Beach, Hawaii — February 24, 2020 Sometimes tourists can be really annoying. Case in point: In Hawaii early this...

Photo taken in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii — February 24, 2020 How’s this for improbable: Through dumb luck we took a two-week trip to Hawaii in...

Photo taken in Penticton, BC — February 1, 2020 Seemingly oblivious to the cold waters of Penticton Creek flowing into the even-colder...

Two years ago I visited this yellow tree overlooking the vineyards in the South Okanagan and came away pleased with what I found. This...

Did we save the best for last? Quite possibly. Our Kootenay road trip was quickly coming to an end and we wanted to get our canoe in the...

You don’t have to go far into Kootenay National Park to find yourself surrounded by the beauty of mountains, forests and streams. The...

The Columbia Valley was a huge but pleasant surprise. I’m not sure what we expected, but what we found was a gorgeous, sun-filled valley...

Kootenay National Park is ridiculously attractive. You can’t go five feet without tripping over something to photograph. I couldn’t...

Our home base in Kootenay National Park was Redstreak Campground. It was a little confusing, since the first thing we were told on...

Fernie had been very good to us and we felt sorry it was time to move on. After a full week you would think we had seen all the amazing...

Of course, we couldn’t just sit and stare at mountains the whole time we were in Fernie. We also needed to get out and do some hiking....

If you had to write the formula for a scene you could sit and stare at for hours, what would it look like? For me it would be: Mountains...

In Fernie we were treated to two days of unseasonably cold and wet weather. Huddled in our small travel trailer we were keenly aware when...

In Fernie we discovered the scenery we had come to the Kootenays for. That’s not to say the other places we visited didn’t have beautiful...

How could you not make a day trip to a place named Yahk? All the tourist guides in Creston spoke glowingly of the small community a few...

Why do some of the best hikes go straight uphill? Were the people who made the trails in a hurry to reach the view? Were they wearing...

The Creston Valley was full of surprises for us — surprises like discovering it has a wine industry, peach, plum and apple orchards,...

Pulling into Creston, BC, one can’t help but notice two weathered grain elevators looming over the highway. When we drove in the valley...

Standard highway rest stops offer a parking lot and one or two grungy bathrooms. Some, if they’re really trying, throw in a picnic table...

Rarely, if ever, have I seen a lake so clear, so calm and so beautiful as Slocan Lake. And when I got up the courage to take a short...