Exploring the unlikely intersections of walking, photography and making
Oki, Shikoku, Japan, 2017 Saijō City, Shikoku,Japan, 2017 Varanasi, India, 2011 On the ghats of Varanasi, India, 2011 Wedding procession, New Delhi, India, 2011 Wedding procession, New Delhi, India, 2011 Black Valley on the Kerry Way, Ireland, 2016 On the Avondhu Way near Killavullen, Ireland, 2016
Naadam Festival, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, 2007. Naadam celebrates the three manly sports of nomadic Mongolia: wrestling, horse racing and archery. Naadam, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, 2007 Tokyo, Japan, 2015 Yomiuri Giants baseball game, Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, 2017 Street musicians, Galway, Ireland, 2016 Literary guides, Dublin, Ireland, 2016
Ronda, Spain, 2019 Day of the Dead, Mexico City, 2018 Mumbai, India, 2011 Liquor store, Kerala, India, 2011 On the Via Francigena, France, 2019 On the Via Francigena, France, 2019 Golden Temple Gurdwara, Amritsar, India, 2011 Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 2011
Gail and I offer our best wishes for 2017. May you have many good walks in the coming year.
It starts with Moves, a smartphone app that tracks my every movement, second-by-second, day-by-day. How far I have walked. Where I have run or biked. My destinations and how many times I have visited them. My life in motion, quantified. Frankly, I rarely open the Moves app. It just runs in the background, non-stop, collecting... Continue Reading →
One more day to lose ourselves in this oh-so walkable city. Our last day in Dublin. In Ireland. Tomorrow it’s back to Winnipeg. But we won’t be leaving Ireland behind. During our trip, we have been in contact with Sheena, an Irish women living in Naas, a small community just outside of Dublin. We didn’t know... Continue Reading →
Our journey through Ireland has come full circle. We left Dublin on foot, the start of our Irish coast-to-coast walk, making our way over 24 days to Portmagee on the west coast. From there our clockwise journey took us, by bus, to Galway, the Aran Islands, Belfast and Northern Ireland and, now, back to Dublin.... Continue Reading →
Three sheets of karst limestone defiantly protrude from the North Atlantic, just an hour’s boat ride off the west coast of Ireland. The sea is calm today as we approach Inishmore, the most-visited of these island outposts, collectively known as the Aran Islands. Today, tourists well outnumber the local population that traditionally relies on farming... Continue Reading →
Our long walk is done. Time for a casual exploration of Ireland’s cities and sites before heading back to Canada. We start with Galway, a half-day by taxi and bus up the west coast from Portmagee, the end point of our cross-Ireland walk. It’s a modest-sized town but chock full of young university students and... Continue Reading →
It is a day of endings. The day we leave the Kerry Way. The final day of our walk across Ireland. The day our path drops into the sea. From Cahersiveen, the Kerry Way heads south, continuing its circular path back to Killarney. If it is anything like our last three days on the trail,... Continue Reading →