Category Archives: Travel

Friday Fun Link – Dark Tourism

This crazy Scottish bastard travels around the world visiting notorious war zones, prisons, countries that are hostile to the west and more. Dark Tourism ? 1. Bin Laden Compound #Abbottabad Pakistan ?? pic.twitter.com/j8B4pOLp6I — CALLUM ABROAD (@CallumAbroad) October 4, 2026  

Friday Fun Link – ChannelSurfer TV

This is pretty cool – somebody created an old-fashioned on-screen TV guide featuring channels pulled from YouTube… SOMEONE TURNED YOUTUBE INTO OLD-SCHOOL CABLE TV. YOU FLIP CHANNELS AND WATCH WHAT’S ON. it's called Channel Surfer ? https://t.co/RzXaWra5EL you open the tab and YouTube stops feeling infinite. no algorithm spiral.no thumbnail shouting at you.no sitting there […]

The Most Racist Field Trip Ever/The Worst Booze Cruise Ever

I can’t remember if I’ve posted these before but I love these videos of people telling absolutely hilarious stories that can’t help but make you laugh too! @califinest82 This is Hilarious… #School #FieldTripStory #Hilarious #StoryTelling #Fyp ? original sound – Califinest82

10 Best Countries For Long Term Stays or Slow Travel

Music Monday – “She makes the sign of a teaspoon/He makes the sign of a wave/The poor boy changes clothes/And puts on aftershave/To compensate for his ordinary shoes”

Reading a new book about the recording of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and rediscovering an amazingly influential and controversial album: “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Saturday Snap – A Cabaret of Legends

Got a free ticket to see a Saskatoon Fringe Play while passing through to drop Sasha off at the SFL Summer Camp and it was an amazing show!

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Garth Brooks in #YXE (June 2016)

Don’t get to Saskatoon often these days but used to go a lot more when we were younger (including more than one there-and-back road trips to go JUST TO GET WENDY’S when Regina which is pretty insane in hindsight!) and when I worked for a province-wide organization (even had a program where I’d go and […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Imagine (May 2009)

Still have the poster I got after attending this exhibit while at a library conference in Montreal in 2009.

Saturday Snap – Surprise Visitors From The Future???

Well, from New Zealand.  But I think that’s a day ahead, no? We knew Shea’s cousin, her NZ husband and three girls were in Canada.  But after a long visit during their last trip to Canada two years ago, we weren’t sure if we’d see them this trip or not. So imagine our surprise when […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Home Again (June 2010)