Lesleyanne Ryan. Canadian Armed Forces Veteran. Peacekeeper. Novelist. Photographer. Traveller. Cat Lover.
Like my mother, I’ve always looked younger than my age.
I know. I know. It’s a curse to be carded when you’re in your 40s. 🙂
In 1991, I was 26 years old and on a road trip up the west coast of the United States with my boyfriend. In Oregon, we came across a site where we could take an elevator down into a huge cave on the edge of the water that was filled with sea lions. In the shop, my boyfriend hauled out a $10 and bought the tickets. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – Oregon”
In 2010, I took a tour of China that included a visit to the Guilin region which is famous for the Li River. We went for a five hour cruise to view the incredible knobby limestone hills lining the river. The formations are known as Karst topography.
In 1981, I went to Spain with my school for a ten day tour. While we were there, a classmate named Annette was obsessed with getting a pair of shoes that she could say were from Spain. At every stop, she skipped the souvenir shops and headed straight for any shoe shops she could find. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – France”
In June 2010, I did a train tour of Scandinavia that ended in Russia. For my departure, I made the mistake of booking a very early flight and the airport in Moscow is over an hour outside the city.
Unless you had my taxi driver.
Yup. It was three in the morning, pouring rain and the road was more like a back country secondary road than an interstate. And my taxi driver was in a bigger hurry than I was.
He did 160 kph all the way.
I was too afraid to ask the driver to slow down. I didn’t want to distract him.
He made the trip in forty minutes. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – Moscow, Russia”
I just returned from a ten day tour of Iceland. I know a lot of people asked why I wanted to go there. The answer was simple.
Volcanoes. Glaciers. Faults. Geysers. Hot springs. Waterfalls. Continue reading “Travel Shorts – Iceland”
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