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Canadian Winter Festivals: Ice on Whyte

Ice on Whyte is an Edmonton-based winter festival where artists come together to develop some incredible pieces of art made entirely out of snow and ice. This year was the 10th annual Ice on Whyte Festival, located just off the popular and bustling Whyte Avenue, and the first one I had ever been to. Featuring beautiful ice sculptures crafted by artists from around the world, Ice on Whyte also offers family skating time, "frozen yoga", activities for children, entertainment, hot chocolate, sticks of maple syrup taffy on snow, ice carving competitions and more, with[...]

Alberta, Travel

I Love Home But I Love Travel More

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land,” – G.K. Chesterton About five weeks ago I was on a small, cramped tourist bus in Vietnam, the beginning of a Mekong River tour. In the back row, five people were sitting and talking about their travels. For all of them, it was their first big trip away from home. Their home was the USA and they couldn't stop talking about how nervous they were to go back there. For an hour I listened to them talk about the reasons why they were[...]