San Juan, Puerto Rico: Where a pina colada trumps tea
Toronto Star April 18: “We are not a tea culture,” says the waiter at Café Puerto Rico, explaining why there is no English Breakfast on the menu. Indeed, it’s a […]
Category Archives: travel
Huatulco, Mexico: Just like home but way hotter
Toronto Star, March 7, 2014: It may be the maple leaves scattered on towels, hats and t-shirts. It could be all sun-screened noses buried in Chris Hadfield’s book around the […]
Saying “I do” in Sin City
Toronto Star, Feb 14– Carly Iwaasa’s parents weren’t too happy about their daughter getting married in Las Vegas. “The first thing my mom said was: ‘Is Elvis going to marry […]
Taking pictures the old fashioned way
Toronto Star, Feb 12, 2014–The gorilla’s face stares at you. Fireworks explode above Canary Island. A beautiful family smiles on safari. Brian Iriye scrolls through the photos he’s transferred from […]
Walgreens: My fav spot on the strip
The first time I was in a Walgreens on the Vegas strip–the one across from the Aria–I saw Chewbacca buying a sandwich. This time I got asked for ID buying a bottle […]
Destination weddingzzzzzzzzz? How about a Mayan shaman?
Toronto Star Jan. 24, 2015: What a difference a few hundred centuries makes, Back when the ancient Mayans were getting married, parents and priests would negotiate who married whom, a […]
Driving art cars in Houston
Toronto Star: As you drive into Houston, passing under elaborate, almost beautiful concrete trails that whisk traffic off to some of the nearly 1,000 kilometres of freeways in the area, […]
Of Steinbeck, soil and Salinas
Toronto Star May 8, 2014, Salinas, California–We all know where lettuce comes from; the produce aisle for most of the year and for those of us lucky enough to […]
The Gilded Age to the Next Gen: Summer in the Berkshires
Toronto Star, July 2, 2014, Lenox, Massachusetts–Dozens of pink roses spill over each other in the middle of the table, hiding the silver salt-and-pepper shakers, as we sit down […]
Get lost in Boston
Toronto Star July 23, 2014, Boston, Mass–The conversations and the good humour start pretty much immediately after you get off the plane in Boston. A chatty Albanian bus driver […]
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