I’ve been a little delinquent in posting over here at TheseBoots since I accepted a paying gig with the BootsnAll Travel Network in the fall of 2010.
I’m helping to build WhyGoCanada, a one-stop resource for travel to Canada.
Since BootsnAll is a sponsor of the upcoming TBEX11, a popular travel blog conference that I wrote about [...]
Just wanted to share my story about the pleasures of walking in Victoria, BC that’s out now in the Fall 2010 issue of Canadian Geographic Travel.
It’s a beautiful spread with photos by the extremely talented Deddeda Stemler…hope you’ll have a look!
What do you get when you cross a passion for hockey with a summer road-trip and a desire to do good?
If you’re 21-year-old Vancouver hockey blogger Richard Loat, you get Five Hole for Food, a 10-day traveling road hockey game that’s helping to replenish the shelves of Canada’s food banks.
The first ball dropped on June [...]
Update 6/2/2011: A few weeks after writing this post here on my personal travel blog, I accepted a position as the host of the Canada travel guide at WhyGo.Com, part of the BootsnAll Travel Network. It was a chance TBEX encounter with Sean Keener, the Big Boots at BootsnAll, that led to the position. The [...]
In the so-obvious-why-hasn’t-anyone-thought-of-it-before department: my friendly neighbourhood culdesactivist James Glave just tipped me off to the news that Vancouver’s new Fairmont Pacific Rim is giving guests a greener option when it comes to bottled water.
In support of Metro Vancouver’s recent campaign to promote the city’s excellent tap water (and significantly reduce plastic waste) the hotel is [...]
I recently received a snarky tweet from someone who asked outright if I had paid for the delicious New Year’s meal I recently enjoyed at the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino.
Indeed I had–and offered to provide the VISA bill to prove it.
But it raised the age-old question (well, age-old for those of us who started our [...]
From the downy comfort of my king-size bed at Tofino’s Wickaninnish Inn, I’m watching die-hard surfers brave the frigid Pacific and being reminded of some of life’s great lessons: take risks; trust; share what you know–and get back on the board when you fall down.
The view from my picture window over Chesterman Beach on the [...]
[This post originally appeared on Sept. 24/09, but since we're just a month out from the start of the 2010 Winter Games, I've brought it back...]
Just back from Whistler where a small group of international travel writers were this week treated to an impressive dog-and-pony about British Columbia’s upcoming Winter Olympics.
Let it be said that [...]
Just posted this news over at InsideVancouver.ca, but short story shorter: if you’re travelling through YVR (and it’s not pretty at the moment), the new Twitter stream from @YVRAirport might be a helpful resource for news and updates.
Are there other Canadian airports on Twitter? If you know, can you please add the ID in the [...]
Until I visited Haida Gwaii in the summer of 2007, I felt awkward and frankly a little pretentious using the aboriginal name for the remote archipelago off British Columbia’s northern coast.
I was more comfortable saying “Queen Charlotte Islands”–the name that had been printed on every grade school map I’d ever studied.
But last week, the Globe [...]
