Road Trip 2017: Rowley, Filling in the Blanks

August 18, 2017 Douglass Adams was a very cool guy. He wrote the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Read it, don’t watch it), he hung out with the Monty Python gang, he liked Dire Straits, he cared about the environment. When he died David Gilmore played Wish You Here Here at his funeral. That’s pretty cool. Anyway, in the HHGG, Adams introduced us to the Total Perspective …

Yellowhead Normality

September 19, 2016 The Yellowhead Highway carves a path through a lot of less seen country. Tiny villages, sprawling ranches, untouched forests,  wetlands and plains, fill most of our province. Yet most of us see very little of it. Sometimes the simple scenes reveal the most subtle beauty. A little farm along the yellowhead overlooks crystal …

Hanna Roundhouse

It’s just a little garage where you can park a half a dozen locomotives. Once part of the CNR’s network, the Hannah Roundhouse is now an historic site, dedicated to the legacy of Canada’s railways.