This is where travelpod becomes particularly useful. No time to ponder in front of the screen – it’s travelling time! I picked Ian up on Friday and we had a grand reunion. He is now being introduced to the wonders of pubic transport, an experience few mining engineers get the chance to appreciate! It’s all [...]

First of all I have a special thanks to Timmy Doran of Clearnet for supplying what amounts to a free long distance phone calls for me for the rest of my trip. This got me to thinking that I should pick up a bunch of corporate sponsors to finance my trip. So the rest of [...]

It’s been a long time between posts. Sorry about that – moving to a new country has been a bit hectic and spare time rare. After a brief 2 weeks back in the UK to make sure my sister got married and catch up with friends and family, I jumped on the plane to Vancouver [...]

Ca fait maintenant 5 jours que je suis de retour. Je n’ai pas encore de chez moi (je cherche intensivement mon prochain appart) mais je suis content! J’ai fait un ultra-merveilleux voyage mais il n’y a rien de mieux que revenir chez soi. Malgr

How do you leave your world behind in the pursuit of another one? This is the question I asked myself while looking at the landscapeslowly changing as I was going from NYC to Arizona, on my 2 days bustour across the USA. I have been working so hard for so long, that itseemed almost unreal [...]

I’ve been in Toronto since Friday, and I feel like I’m in a parallel universe where I went to all the best private schools, and am the daughter of a prestigious brain surgeon or something. In reality, I’m staying at the Four Seasons courtesy of my friend Lorisa, from Winnipeg, who is in Toronto for [...]

Day 4 of the great polar bear adventure did not begin auspiciously. I woke at 4 am with a sharp pain in my left hip. When I tried to move the leg, the pain went shooting down the leg through my knee and all the way to my ankle. We’re housed at CNSC (Churchill Northern [...]

I like a lot of things about trip preparation, but packing isn’t one of them. Look! I’m putting my underwear in a bag…. Since the only part I find diverting is seeing how little I can take with me, I usually put off the chore until the last moment. But my colleague Rich gave me [...]

*Please note: due to lack of space on our computer we’ve had to burn to disc and delete photo’s from our hard drive. More photo’s will be added later.* Leah says: Quebec City was just as gorgeous as I remember. It is a very quaint very French city with beautiful buildings and sections of cobbled [...]

Today we make our way to Vancouver and are at sea all day. The ship takes the inside passage, thus the waters are calm and the rocking of the ship is moderate. We spent the day roaming around the ship watching a seminar from the ship naturalist (Milos) who explains biologic and geologic phenomenons with [...]