Discovered: Japan Three Ways
It should come as no surprise that there are many takeaways from a trip to Japan, especially for first timers. The lights. The branding. The culture. The way manic city life blends in to serene zen-life seeming...
Osoyoos Is Napa Of The North
This southernmost town in the Okanagan Valley owes its name to its original inhabitants, the Syilx Indians, who called it sẁiẁs (pronounced ‘soo-yoos’) meaning “place where two lakes meet”. Osoyoos boasts Ca...
Nova Scotia With Dice
Is life as a human but a chance moment on Earth? Do things happen for a reason or is life simply a roll of the dice? I have a good life, a loving husband, a cool and challenging job where no two days are alike....
Canyon Carving With The Mustang Shelby GT500
There are many great roads for car enthusiasts in North America but few are within minutes of the centre of a major city. An exception to that can be found on California Highway 2, known better to locals as Ang...
The Red Sea Smuggler
An excerpt from the book A Driven Mind by Garry Sowerby I awoke at 5:20 that April morning in 1984 on a flat car at the end of a creeping freight train. Ken and our Ethiopian guide, Tim Cat, were asleep w...
Urban Assault In Prince Edward County
Be it Friday evening or Saturday morning, a sea of stuffed silver and grey SUV’s clog Southern Ontario’s eastbound artery throughout the spring, summer and fall. Helmed by like-minded drivers who’ve loaded up k...
Riding The Beartooth Pass
There are many ways to get to Billings, Montana, the start of one of my favourite rides – the Beartooth Pass. For Debra and me, getting there can be a bit of a challenge with 850 kilometres of open prairie to c...
Jaguar Prowls The Coast Of France
I could swear I’d seen this before; the rocky cliff face to my left, the concrete blocks standing in as Armco barriers to my right, technically there to stop one from tumbling down a steep incline after sliding...
Car Ferries – Unsung heroes of transportation
When I asked if the sea we were sailing on would get much rougher, I couldn’t understand why husband Garry’s face registered humour, instead of adopting the serious expression I required to feel comfortable. Ho...
It’s Baghdad or Bust!
An excerpt from the book A Driven Mind by Garry Sowerby In 1984 Kuwait was the wealthiest country in the world per capita. Its port was the most efficient on the Persian Gulf, busy with tankers shipping out ...