by Mary Charleson | Jul 6, 2025 | Canada
I was told I’d be blown away by Saskatchewan. And I was. Quite literally, with hair whipped into a tangled mess, head tipped windward, in defiance. We were here to embrace an Indigenous tourism Saskatchewan experience. But who knew a prairie province, branded as the...
by Mary Charleson | Jun 30, 2025 | Canada
I admit to previously dismissing Saskatchewan as a flat open prairie, with miles of straight roads and grain elevators. My impression was largely formed on a road trip from Ontario to BC, driving the Trans-Canada Highway, back in 1987, when I first moved to Vancouver....
by Mary Charleson | Apr 17, 2025 | USA
Although Needles Canyonlands is in the same Canyonlands National Park as the Island in the Sky, these two regions are geographically and visually distinct. Like two different parks really. And that’s the way you should treat them when planning your time. They...
by Mary Charleson | Nov 15, 2024 | Europe
We first cycled Corsica Island, in our 20s. One of the eighteen regions of France, this large mountainous Mediterranean island, southeast of the French mainland, was our honeymoon destination. Back then we toured the entire perimeter on road bikes, with the conquering...
by Mary Charleson | May 21, 2024 | USA
There are many places to visit in Tennessee, a state that keeps time in both the eastern and central zones, plus shares a border with eight states: Kentucky and Virginia in the north, North Carolina in the east, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi in the south, and...
