adventure travel and photography journal
“I laughed so hard I almost fell out of the balcony.”
As my director, Sarina Condello, musical director, Sheila Philcox, and I start to craft the script for our next musical, La Neige, I am grinning thinking about the crazy fun we had mounting The Bopping Dead, our production of this past April.
At the beginning of October, four friends and I went canyoneering for the day with 360 Adventures (www.360) in Hog Canyon, Tonto National Forest, Sierra Ancha Mountains, near Lake Roosevelt and the town of Globe, Arizona. “Canyoneering is a technical adventure sport of traveling down steep and narrow canyons using a variety of techniques that mayContinue reading “Canyoneering Hog Canyon, AZ”
I’m nervously excited about our community theatre production this year called THE BOPPING DEAD. Singing, dancing, and acting in front of a combined audience of over 1000 people is always intimidating but this fundraiser is a little more nerve-wracking. Why? Because I had the opportunity to co-adapt, plus co-write the original B and C storylines,Continue reading “The Bopping Dead Comes to Life!”
Celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday this summer, 15 of my fellow sistas and I will hike Gros Morne National Park, on the west coast of Newfoundland, Canada, for five days, with a half day of kayaking Bonne Bay (8 km) for good measure. Hopefully, we’ll see our share of minke whales, eagles, terns, mink, mergansers and kingfishers.
The grounds surrounding the Kripalu are equally as beautiful and offer some great day hiking. Here are some pics from my solo trek on the trails of Tanglewood one sunny afternoon, in the Berkshires north of the Center, on Old Baldhead Road to Monk’s Pond, and on the Burbank Trail.
This is kinda cool. Somehow, someone bought my sketch, entitled Chechen Women, at a thrift shop or sale in Picton, Ontario, and tagged it on Instagram. I’ve not a clue how it ended up there but I’m pleased this charcoal piece found a happy home. Thank you.
Liv and Ryan, our two teens, and I took a guided hike into Tabor Canyon. It’s about 10 km south of Loreto and is a big watershed for the Sierra de la Giganta. It is strewn with monstrous boulders and loose, crumbling volcanic rock and requires free climbing, ropes work, steady feet, a few leaps of faith and crossing water pools. The payoffs are stunning views of the mountainous desert canyon and ocean, from 1000 ft in elevation.
When hiking Sedona, you don’t want the day to end because Mother Nature has dipped her paintbrush in vibrant ochre.
We had a couple of very rare, warm Northern Ontario November days with highs of 16C and a gorgeous breeze. The leaves had fallen, the tourists were gone, and we didn’t see another soul the whole time. Amazing…
If you’re ever on Stony Lake in the Kawarthas, Ontario, you must kayak or canoe up Eel’s Creek. This is our little backyard secret: it’s not really a creek, more a stunning river that winds its way up to High Falls.
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