• Canada,  North America

    Ethical Wildlife Encounter: A Tadoussac Whale Watching Trip

    A Tadoussac whale watching trip is a highlight of things to do in the Quebec Province.  Tadoussac is easy to access, only a three hours drive north of Quebec City.  It’s a unique location due to the fact that the fresh water Sanguenay River & the salt water St. Lawrence River converge.  This area has an abundance of food like plankton & krill, that whales love to eat.  It’s one of the best spots for whale watching in Canada & throughout the world and I’ve given you everything you need to know to plan your own trip to Tadoussac.   What to You’ll See Whale Watching in Canada Water sprayed…

  • Canada,  North America

    Abbie of Green Gables: My summer trip to PEI

    With the last string of rainy days I’ve found myself daydreaming of my past summer trips, more specifically my time in Prince Edward Island, which had all the ingredients a good vacation consists of: childhood nostalgia, insanely delicious ice cream, the beach and moonshine. Any girl who had a worthwhile childhood knows of Anne of Green Gables.  You read the books or watched the movies and immediately related to Lucy Maud Montgomery’s precocious red headed main character, Anne Shirley.  It was because of those movies that my sister and I became obsessed with Anne and the stories following the characters of Green Gables. The books are set in Prince Edward Island,…

  • Canada,  North America

    Trapped in Toronto

    You know you have been stuck on a plane too long when you longingly gaze out the window and wish to trade places with one of the tarmac workers.  There was a point while trapped on my last flight where I would have gladly schlepped luggage on and off aircrafts in exchange to get out of my temporary hell hole. “I’ve never experienced anything like this before,” our pilot said with a puzzled tone over the loud-speaker.  “If you guys could just hang tight for another few minutes.”  Loud groans and sighs echoed through the plane as we all were losing our patience, some more quickly than others.  This was…