Travel

All is eerily quiet at Hawaiian Ocean View Estates.

The euphemistically-named Ginger Blossom Lane cuts through a great swath of crusty, black hillside sparsely dotted with tired looking homes. There are no ginger blossoms.

By Jack Christie, Photography by Louise Christie If there's an award for B.C.'s best marine tourist attraction, Sidney's Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre is a shoo-in-except for one thing.

I am always looking for somewhere new to explore on skis. So I was intrigued by descriptions of Rogers Pass written in Chic Scott's book Alpine Ski Tours in the Columbia Mountains and by the tales my friends have told me about touring there.

Photos and text by Bonny Makarewicz While many prefer to fly between African countries, our group decided a self-drive safari would not only be more affordable but flexible for four self-confessed control freaks First stop -Kruger National Park.

I should have worn tighter clothes. Those aren't words that you would typically hear coming out of my mouth, but I repeated them over and over last Thursday as I lay down on my skeleton sled and was lowered onto the ice at the Maple Leaf start.

When Jerry Auld read explorer David Thompson's account of his journey up the Whirlpool River in two-metre deep snow and -30 C temperatures with a broken snowshoe, which culminated in his first crossing of Athabasca Pass in 1811 with his guide Thomas

By Jack Christie, Photography by Louise Christie Winter tempests stir the hearts of surf lovers and storm watchers alike along the West Coast.

From the Eminonu ferry dock in Istanbul's "Old City" it's a short walk to Yeni Camil, the "New Mosque," but in Istanbul the words old and new are relative rather than literate.

We were having lunch in a small open-air café on the Asian side of Istanbul when the call to prayer rang out from a nearby minaret.