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Road Trip 2017: Sunset, Sunrise
Originally published: August 18, 2017 In Alberta You Don’t Pay the Ferryman Slicing almost due west from the strange tower, we kept to back roads, making our way towards the Red Deer River. All along the way the land teased of something different, just over the horizon. The GPS, iPhone and Alberta Atlas (that’s an actual paper …
Road Trip 2017: The Badlands’ Last Stand
August 19, 2017 Rowley probably won’t remember us. As they no doubt hoped, we left no trace that we were there. This road trip was winding down. We had no plans and no fixed destination for the day. We rolled generally northwards until I realized we may be getting dangerously close to civilization. At the …
Road Trip 2017: Nokamis, the Oracle of Empress
August 17, 2017 Day three Searching for ghost towns and other relics in rural Alberta leads to some very remote places. Lunch is not always easy to find; routes need to seriously consider the next gas station. Maps on cell phones stop offering advice, and finding the next ‘destination’ can resemble a scavenger hunt with very …
Road Trip 2017: Helen of Oyen
August 16, 2017 Before we start day three … Anyone who’s been to the Bruce Hotel for their famous steak dinner knows that amazing food can be found in some pretty odd places. Yet while you might expect a small rural hotel in Alberta could deliver an epic steak, who would imagine finding world class Chinese food …
Road Trip 2017: Salt Lakes and Odd Structures
August 17, 2017 Day three I’ve spent a lot of time driving the backroads around Edmonton. As a photographer, you need to put on some distance from the city before things start looking ‘authentic’. You know, the kind of stuff people would see in pictures and say, Nice picture, or, wow, or, I want to buy that! But even at …
