Tag: Travel Stories

When it was announced that our hometown NHL team the Edmonton Oilers were going to play their first-ever overseas regular season game in Gothenburg, Sweden, I jumped at the chance to buy tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime event. I immediately texted my friends and asked who was in for the season […]

Being a parent is hard work!  We are very fortunate that we have two sets of parents that live close by, who offered to long-term babysit our little peanut for a few days so Cecilia and I could go on a little adventure on our own. We looked at a lot […]

At only three months old, we figured our little Henry was ready to take his very first airplane ride. That first airplane ride was actually the first of 5 we would take on this awesome adventure, to the islands of Oahu and Maui in Hawaii.  This trip came about because […]

The summer of 2016, we spent exploring some dry, dusty deserts. Some locations were very familiar, and some were new (to us), but both brought lots of excitement and left us with wonderful memories. First up was a quick weekend in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada.  We looked up one of […]

The list of countries on my ‘must travel to’ list got one shorter in the summer of 2015, when I was finally able to explore the magical transcontinental country of Turkey.

In what was perhaps my hastiest decision making moment in recent memory, my wife & I went from watching the final episode of the HBO series “Sonic Highways” to searching the internet for remaining tickets to the Foo Fighters’ 20th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, DC, to booking our flight, hotel and the […]

We decided to surprise our friend Chuck with a once-in-a-lifetime Bachelor Party in Montreal, Quebec.  

After years of trying to talk her into it, I finally convinced Cecilia to give New York another chance! The last (and only) time Cece had visited the city, she unfortunately had a trip from hell. She missed out on all the museums, she was robbed on the subway, her […]

When it came time to book a trip for this year’s Spring Break, our minds drifted typically to beaches and sand…someplace tropical to escape the brutal Canadian winter. But when two of our close friends came over one night for dinner and told us how they were thinking about testing […]

This last summer, I finally took the plunge and got married!  We spent a month touring Italy from North to South on our Honeymoon – these are some of my favourite shots from our trip.  Enjoy!