Quebec’s Ice Hotel is Open for the Season
The ice is nice in seasonal hotel in Quebec The Hôtel de Glace (Ice Hotel in English) in Quebec City is open for the 2012 season, its 11th. One great thing about a structure that melts each spring and is rebuilt again the following winter is that it can be redesigned and re-imagined every year. The [...]
Guest Post: Ode (to) Canada!
“Oh, Canada!” is the national anthem. Guest poster writes an ode to his country Canada is one of my very favorite countries on this planet. When I lived on the East Coast, Quebec and the Maritimes were the provinces I visited most frequently. Since moving to Colorado in 1988, I’ve spent more time in Alberta [...]
Expedition Cruise Ship Stuck on an Arctic Rock
Passengers ferried to land, but ship is still stuck The “Clipper Adventurer,” a small eco-tourism expedition ship operated Ontario-based Adventure Canada ran aground on an “unmarked rock” in Arctic waters, according to a CNN report. The ship was “exploring” the Northwest Passage when the incident occurred. It was first reported on Friday, and crew was able [...]
Happy Anniversaries, Parks Canada
Canada’s equivalent of the US National Park Service celebrates its 125th this year. But wait! There’s more! Happy Anniversaries — plural “anniversaries” with an S is correct, as Parks Canada (and also Parcs Canada in our officially bilingual neighbor to the north) — celebrates and celebrates and celebrates. Currently, the agency is responsible for 42 national [...]
Rail Transportation’s US Future
President’s proposal for rail expansion would alter US travel I love trains. When I travel abroad, it is my favorite mode of transportation., I love the energetic bustle of big-city railroad stations and the convenience of traveling from center-city to center-city, and I certainly prefer reaching small communities by train to clogging up roadways with [...]
Austin-Lehman Adventures Supports National Parks
Glacier National Park, celebrating centennial in 2010, is first beneficiary “Preserve a Park” is a new conservation and educational initiative by Austin-Lehman Adveventures, an award-winning tour opeator. It will benefit a different national park each year via financial contributions to an organization that supports that park, while featuring an educational experience for guests who book [...]
Sherman’s Pick for 10 Best Ski Resorts for Nonskiers
With only four in the U.S., mixed-interest groups better get passports ready if following Sherman ShermansTravel selected ”Top 10 Ski Resorts for Nonskiers.” The magazine’s selection — or perhaps the selection of Becca Bergman whose byline appears after each writeup — is heavily canted toward resorts in other countries. This is not surprising in the sense that Alpine [...]
New Hotel Wing Shines at Sunshine
Upgraded accommodations at Sunshine Village near Banff The Banff/Lake Louise area in western Alberta boasts three very different and very intriguing ski areas. Mammoth Ski Louise‘s network lifts and vast skiable terrain comprise the largest ski area in the Canadian Rockies (or perhaps all of the Rockies). Norquay, the smallest of the trio, is the closest to [...]
Calgary Builds on Its Olympic Legacy
With Canada poised to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, the ’88 Games have not been fogotten When you visit a city that hosted the Summer Olympic Games, you might be shown a stadium that was used for track and field, a pool complex built for swimming and diving or watercourse used for rowing. But by and [...]
Where to Watch Wild Weather
The Weather Channel stormwatcher picked 10 spots; I have an 11thIf you’ve ever seen a tornado, you’ve watched wild weather. Those who were in Miami for Hurricane Andrew, in New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina or on Galveston Island for Hurricane Ike certainly witnessed devastatingly wild weather, as did those in the path of assorted tsunamis, [...]
