by PDR-Kellie | Mar 24, 2016 | Contemplations, Nature, outdoors, Process, Travel, World, Writing Life
I’ve never been a sporty girl. In elementary school, I got out of gym for what seemed like months for reasons I no longer remember. There I’d be, sitting on the stage like a wuss, probably reading a book. I was the one who got picked last in team selection...
by PDR-Kellie | Aug 21, 2014 | Manitoba, Ontario, Orillia, Seasons, The Pas
We are about to embark on the 2500-kilometre drive back home, hauling our new (to us) three-person (or two people, and a dog) pop-up trailer and all the boxes pulled out of my mom and step-dad’s basement plus a few extras (my grandma’s strawberry...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 8, 2008 | Contemplations, Going Green, Issues
Rising gas prices have finally raised the question. Should we stay or should we go? It’s not an easy one to answer, but since airplanes deliver one of the worst doses of carbon, it’s long overdo that we stop treating travel like it is sacrosanct in the...
by PDR-Kellie | Jun 6, 2008 | Going Green, Issues, Recommended
On my way home from the library last night, yet another bit about the collapsing airline industry was on the radio. Dubbed the “airline armageddon” by blogger Lou at The Cost of Energy, it seems like passenger costs for plane trips are rising faster than...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 8, 2007 | Recommended, World
Lately I’m in love with a couple of brazen kids from Portland, Oregon. One year ago this past Tuesday, Amy and Sloan packed up a bright yellow 1977 VW camper van and took off across America for the first stage of a year of traveling throughout India, Malaysia,...
