Ocean

There aren’t many who will begin a steep, four hour hike at 4:35 in the afternoon. I can offer excuses, but I think they are rather predicta...

So how many wild things do you really see out there in the Canadian Rockies? Marmots, okay, but how about something larger? I can deliver ...

North of Banff, in the Yoho National Park I encounter three marmots playing. They scuffle and roll over each other and eventually scamper aw...

This is what adventure travel is all about , Ed tells me in the morning, as we sit in the one-and a half person tent, watching the puddles f...

It’s past midnight but the airport still has people milling around. Doors painted like saloon entrances, posters of rodeos, a woman picks up...

Ed tells me: do you know we will be traveling for twelve hours just to get to Calgary? Oh yes. We are frugal travelers and so we will inde...

Message from a friend who camps up in Canada: oh, so you’re going to grizzly country …. Message from friend who has camped all her life: ta...

I will never ever get used to the idea of those early-day departures, when the last family member says ‘bye and disappears for another long ...

I Romeo and Juliet is, for me, a tear-jerker to the max. I can relate to emotionally charged, impetuous decisions of the type made by the ...

I haven't an ounce of energy to put up a post. Not an ounce. You want detail? Okay. tomorrow, but not today.

It has been, to the day, two and a half years since I started Ocean . I have bragged incessantly about my commitment to daily posting. That ...

The winds are blowing through, reminding me very much of the warm afternoons in the Languedoc. Restless winds, moving clouds around, alterna...