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John Harris has absconded from Australia for five weeks with his wife Sandy and eight-year-old daughter Eden. While the true purpose of their trip to North America is to spend Christmas with Canadian friends in the snowy suburban streets of Ottawa, they have extended the front end of the trip and the back end of the trip with so many add-ons that the Norwood City Council is considering sending in the building inspectors. This itinerary is enough to make grown travel agents shudder: Disneyland, Hollywood, the Big Easy, the Bad DC, the Big Apple, the Big Hole in the Ground, Lost Wage and that Pacific island where you get leied on arrival. Will it stand the strain? Will it collapse? Dear reader, I know not, so read on to discover how it all turns out.

LA International Airport - did I forget to brush my teeth?

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At 7000 above sea level, Flagstaff had John wheezing for air as he hauled the bags to the bedroom at the Hampton Inn Suites. Ironically, it was the only place in the US that Eden and John actually had a swim - admittedly the pool was indoors.

 

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Nothing prepared me for the size and ever-changing expanse of the Grand Canyon
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Santa was on steroids this year

Highlight of our Christmas in Canada

  •  Eden and Erin were as closely matched as if they hatched out of the same shell

  • Just four of us to eat a gigantic roast turkey dinner followed by pumpkin pie

  • The unbounded generosity of the Langes

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