Moab, Utah’s Sin City
Of course, Utah’s definition of ‘sin city’ is very different than that of Nevada’s next door. In a bit of tongue-in-cheek they have taken Nevada’s saying of “what happens in […]
Category Archives: USA & Canada
Canyonlands National Park: Island in the Sky & Mesa Arch
September 23. We admired Dead Horse Point in the (fairly) early morning light and then raced to Canyonlands, hoping to catch some more of that morning light. But at Aztec Butte […]
Dead Horse Point, Dying within Sight of Water (Utah)
September 23. Dead Horse Point gets its name from a horse that died within sight of water, unable to reach it. Enroute to the state park we passed two ship-shaped […]
The Hotel Vancouver, 1950
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story, from my dad’s journal of memories, is about a job he had at the Hotel Vancouver in 1950. When I left the cedar mill, I […]
The Mural Festival On (& Off) Main (Vancouver)
Although some countries have had ‘murals’ for thousands of years (cave paintings, Mexico, Egypt come to mind) there now seems to be a world mural craze, and Vancouver jumped in […]
Working at Arctic Ice Cream in Vancouver, 1951
Editor/Daughter’s Note: From my dad’s journal of memories, this story from Vancouver in 1951. I met a young Dane named Poul and we moved into a rooming house on Thurlow […]
The Three Pools at Little Qualicum Falls on Vancouver Island
Years ago I went on a sketching trip to Little Qualicum Falls on Vancouver Island. The star attraction for me were the three pools, each one different: one deep sea […]
