The drive to Death Valley National Park is a lot like you might imagine it: long, straight, flat sections of pavement with seemingly no end in sight. Although this description might sound pretty awful, it is actually a spectacular and worthwhile drive. The desert valleys are vast and expansive, there are few signs of industrial […]
California Road Trip: Red Rock Canyon State Park
A lesson for the road: do your research, and if you don’t do research, do flexibility. It was early in the morning and we were packing up our Yosemite campsite when I pulled up the best route to get to Sequoia National Park and Death Valley. I had planned to head East out of the […]
California Road Trip: Pacific Coast Highway
Our California Road Trip started as we drove northbound on the PCH-Highway 101 out of Los Angeles. It felt like a movie scene– windows down, fresh ocean air blowing through the van, passing highway signs for Malibu, Zuma Beach, and Ventura. I was quite literally blasting Miley Cyrus’ ‘Malibu’ as we sailed along in our […]
California Road Trip: An Overview
In April 2022, we left the country for the first time since April 2019. Three years is a long time, but we had been making the best of the pandemic by exploring parts of Canada we had never seen before. Nonetheless, we were stoked to be in the international departures section of Edmonton International Airport […]
The Start: Newfoundland and Labrador — A Guest Post by Nicholas Madden
My name is Nicholas Madden, I’m a 24 year old from Huntsville, Ontario. A recent university graduate that achieved a BSc in Environmental Sciences. I’m looking forward to the day when I’m able to use this degree to achieve something for the greater good of the environment, society, and humanity. Right now, however, my life […]