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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
