Category Archives: Travel

Clear Creek Abbey

Posted on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by bt

This was far too blessed to blog about in any serious way, so I won’t. But I WILL mention that for culture shock, there’s nothing like the Route 66 Diner chili cheese omelette on the way to the airport from … Continue reading →

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Peggy’s Cove

Posted on Friday, February 25, 2011 by bt

In a place like this, at a time like this, the pictures take themselves. It’s like walking in the woods and finding yourself in a clearing full of roses, already tied up in bouquets and ready for the picking.

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Breakfast in Thunder Bay

Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2011 by bt

I’d forgotten what a comfort the Husky gas station and diner is. It’s the only chain built on that bastion of small hospitality (and therefore of Christendom), the leathery, blunt old waitress with a heart of gold. Countless weary truckers … Continue reading →

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Serendipity

Posted on Monday, February 14, 2011 by bt

Well THAT was unexpected: I will never know exactly how many hours I stood at the Huron’s transom, watching the Pacific go by, trying to stay awake, and waiting to pitch a lifebuoy after some poor sailor on his way … Continue reading →

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Sou’wester Restaurant

Posted on Monday, February 14, 2011 by bt

Last time I visited Peggy’s Cove, I tried, and loved, Solomon Gundy and fish hash with beans and green tomatoes. This time, I discovered blueberry grunt. It may have been invented to disguise a dropped upsidedown cake, by breaking it … Continue reading →

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Small Business Management

Posted on Friday, February 11, 2011 by bt

Homeless can collector, Spring Garden Road, Halifax: “Well, the first year students don’t drink as much as they used to; just have their heads in their books. I lost a lot of clients when the school year changed over, and … Continue reading →

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Why you shouldn’t live near Vancouver

Posted on Saturday, September 4, 2010 by bt

On Thursday, I dropped my Mom at work, got a haircut, picked up some wine and pastries, visited two friends, and covered well over a hundred miles in the process.

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Say What?

Posted on Monday, August 3, 2009 by bt

On the top of Google’s listing for weird emails today: Dear Father, Bad news: When I set the tenth Sunday after Pentecost as the first day for the Kinkoriites to sing the Propers, I’d forgotten that my boss is expecting … Continue reading →

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Catholic Traveller

Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2008 by bt

“I also asked him for coffee, and as he refused it I took him to be a heretic and went down the road making up verses against all such, and singing them loudly through the forest that now arched over … Continue reading →

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Turner Winehunt ’08

Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 by bt

I found the above-mentioned winery on a roadtrip with my brother through BC’s wine belt, the length of the Okanagan Valley* from Osoyoos up through Kelowna. While I wouldn’t encourage anyone to weigh my opinion on wine with much gravity, … Continue reading →

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