Travel has always had a place in my life from the time I was a boy until today. In 1998, Yim joined me on the adventure and our big trips are still to come.
I enjoy writing about them and using my photography to illustrate them simply as a way of recording a life well lived. I hope you find something you enjoy.
La Fortuna was our third stop in Costa Rica and we drove in from Monteverde, along the twisting, mountainous dirt roads. The 40 kilometre drive to Tilaran took an hour and forty-five minutes, because we weren’t going to travel…
On the day before our drive to Monteverde, we had very strong winds at night in the Esterone area. Palm trees scraped along our metal roof all night long, punctuated by the occasional bang of a branch hitting the…
Sunrise at Playa Buenavista. Esterones, Costa Rica – Our First Month For the first month of our visit to Costa Rica, we rented a house in a small district called Esterones de Samara. Esterones is a quiet, agricultural, jungle-surrounded…
The Ostional Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was created in 1984 to protect one of the world’s most important nesting sites of the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. I had been interested in visiting since 2017 as the beaches of…
2025 was a particularly cold winter and spring, and the weather in Collingwood did not really warm up until early June, the same month I turned 70 and I decided that I was no longer willing to tolerate five…
Ratatouille is a traditional French Provençal dish of stewed summer vegetables that originated as a peasant food in the southern region of France. But I knew it better from the Disney movie of the same name but had never…
The Flamingo Tongue Snail is a small marine snail that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. For many years, I wanted to photograph one but never seemed to have my camera with me when I spotted…
Over a month after being home, the incredible, lush landscapes of Madeira remain lodged in my memory… This is the most comprehensive post I have ever photographed and written of our travels. It features 20 separately linked posts expanding…
A little bit about the home we stayed in, because it deserves it’s own page. We stayed at an Alojamento Local that we found on AirBNB called Cantinho do Sol, which was represented by a local company called Stay…
Getting ready for our three week journey to Madeira, Portugal was a big deal this year. We planned it for almost four months before we left, finding a nice home we both liked in an area of the island that…
