Derek’s Five Best-Loved Downtown Calgary Cycle Circuits and Cool Coffee Cafés
I do love exploring Calgary on my bicycle. I think the enjoyment of it was enhanced by my days working in the Beltline as an engineer when I would do my 20km cycle from home in the northwest to work. It was always such a thrill as I commuted along the cycle path, parallel to
Climbing for the Wellness of the Wilderness
What were you doing on the morning of Saturday April 27th, 2019? Perhaps you, too, were preparing to ascend the 54 storeys and by conquering the 1,204 steps to summit the top of Calgary’s Bow Tower in support of the Alberta Wilderness Association’s (AWA) annual Climb for Wilderness? Did you know that this event is Western Canada’s biggest Earth Day
Arts Commons, a Community of Creativity
Welcome to Arts Commons, one of Canada’s largest multi-disciplinary arts centres, located on the southern boundary of Olympic Plaza and the eastern end of Stephen Avenue. Occupying an entire city block and home to 6 levels of artistic expression the Centre is the venue for concert halls, theatre workshops, meeting rooms, gallery and artwork displays,
A Fast, Furious, and Fun Food Frenzy
Alberta Theatre Project’s 26th Annual Celebrity Hors d’Oeuvres What happens when performing arts, culinary arts, celebrities and society collide? Why, it can only be the vibrant Alberta Theatre Projects’ Annual Celebrity Hors d’oeuvres event! Celebrating its 26th year, the 2019 event held on April 27th rocked the fabulous Willow Park Wines and Spirits venue on Bonaventure
Make Room for the Broom
North Woven Broom Company, Crawford Bay, BC As a male my tendency would be to see a broom as purely functional. A handle. Bristles. Get the job done. The thing with visiting an Artisan’s workspace and seeing them engaged in their craft is that the observer forms a strange and unintentional bond with the Artisan’s unique
A Magical Hideaway in the BC Woods at Owl Ridge
Spontaneous Spring 2019 Road Trip The cabin at Owl Ridge near Riondel, BC is not just any cabin. For readers to understand what significance this log cabin situated in the woods above Kootenay Lake’s east shore has to Christa and I, you would need to have a little more insight into our love story. A little
The back-story to “I Am Calgary”
It’s a milestone week for us here at “I Am Calgary” (IAC). It’s the anniversary of our first birthday since go-live on April 14th, 2018. We’ve had such fun. Discovering. Exploring. Filming. Photographing. Meeting. Posting. Sharing. Writing. These are all critical elements of what I wanted to do to showcase life in and around Calgary, my new home city. It’s the essence of
Derek’s Road Trip Essentials Checklist
We sure do love a good road trip. Check out our most recent road trip stories here. We also love leaving some space for spontaneity during our journey, sometimes not even booking accommodation ahead of time and trying to figure it out when we get there. None the less, there are always a few key
Hot springs, bird watching and the Nordic god of snow
Spontaneous Spring 2019 Road Trip Day #2 Following our annual indulgent spa pamper in Canmore the previous day, we settled in and enjoyed a comfortable enough sleep in our cozy and somewhat smaller-than-usual bed in our penthouse perch at Radium Chalet. Read about our Day #1 experience here. We managed to mobilize ourselves in time to
Midday massage, classic Canmore and Radium’s best room-with-a-view
Spontaneous Spring 2019 Road Trip Day #1 We do love a good road trip. It’s synonymous with who we are as a couple. We got engaged during our first road trip from Calgary to Vancouver in 2011. Thankfully, Christa said, “yes”. Otherwise the 13-hour trip back to Calgary would have been interminable! Ever since, we’ve made a point of road tripping
