No Escape, Not Even to Kyoto
There’s no escaping anything in life. Fly all the way to Tahiti or the Himalayas, and what you’ll find—as the Hollywood clichés often remind us—is that person who’s always longing …
Read MoreMonth: July 2008
Summer Time
A suggestion: It’s summer. Collapse into yourself. Remain where you are, with a good book in hand. That is, escape by staying put, on the couch or hammock, with your …
Read MoreLoneliest Planet Europe
Travel and heartbreak, on the perfect budget
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Skype Love
Are we drawn closer by being farther away?
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Young Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978
My group would hump our stuff along the trail, while the other would tie ropes to the canoes and tow them up the creek
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Shelter from the Storm
Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss
Read MoreThe Getaway
The operation is a success. Still covered in bandages and groggy from the drugs, they drive me on the smaller roads through the forest to the town with the single …
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Summertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging
There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …
Read More800 Clicks to Broadway
For at least a year after the Little Long Lac gold mine closed and our family left the country north of Superior for the city of Toronto, I could bring …
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