According to the journals she left behind, with strict instructions not to publish until “no living person would be hurt” by her comments, Lucy Maude Montgomery always knew she’d be famous one day. “I believe in myself,” she wrote. “And I struggled on alone, in secrecy and silence. I never told my ambitions and efforts [...]
We saw a humpback whale breach in the distance and considered that spectacular display a fine reward for our journey across the Bay of Fundy. We all applauded with glee and readied ourselves for the journey home, thinking that was the show we'd all come to see. It turned out to be just the opening [...]
According to one legend, Peggy's Cove, a pretty little fishing village on the south shore of Nova Scotia, owes its name to the lone survivor of a shipwreck, a little girl rescued and raised by the fishermen who found her. Maybe. But I think that cove belongs to another feisty Peggy, an octogenarian grandma who [...]
Brazilian architect Oscar Neimeyer once said, "Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple." We wrapped up the final leg of our South American tour by observing this phenomena firsthand -- the curve of Guanabara Bay, the largest bay in the world and one of the [...]
I spent a couple of merry afternoons chasing rainbows in Argentina and Brazil, pinning them with a bulky camera lens and bringing them home. Left eye squinted shut, right eye trained on the spectacular view of Iguazu Falls, I watched the rainbows stretch out shyly, faded streaks over pounding water. Iguazu Falls means "Big Water" [...]