Feb. 7, 1938 - July 24, 2019 Raymond (Ray) Twomey, father, composer, artist, fly fisher and traveller, died painlessly at 12:15 pm, Wednesday, July 24 while listening to Ode to Joy at the Peter Lougheed Centre, in Calgary, Alberta. Ray was born just before World War 2, in Camborne, Cornwall to Thomas and Nora Twomey of Cork, Ireland. The war years were difficult and in … [Read more...]
Skiing in the Canadian Rockies
Ah! Winter in the Canadian Rockies. Who would have guessed that a Brazilian would be so thrilled to spend winter in sub-zero temperatures sliding down the mountains on skis? In order to understand my passion for this icy world, we will have to go back over two decades. I I began rock climbing in 1991, in native city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio is widely known as the best … [Read more...]
T-Rex Centre and Dinosaur Provincial Park
In 2014, I was sitting at a presentation during the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival where a nice lady was reading snippets of her book about the prairies; A Geography of Blood. To my surprise, Candace Savage, the author, mentioned that a small town in Saskatchewan called Eastend has one of the most complete t-rex skeletons ever discovered. I immediately knew we had to … [Read more...]
Sleepless in Seattle
There was a time when airlines would offer the shortest route between two places but our voyage to Jamaica involved a 11 hour layover in Seattle! This was just long enough to go into the city centre, so I tried to make the best of our limited time there. I talked to friends and searched Google to find what to do during the layover. It was our first time in Seattle - I was … [Read more...]
The Montana Dinosaur Trail
It took me a while to find the time to write the continuation of my trip to Utah, but I am back with some interesting facts about Montana. We spent one night in Bozeman, so we could visit the town next morning before heading north. Bozeman is home to many important climbers and mountaineers in the USA, so it was a place I always wanted to visit. They host the famous Bozeman Ice … [Read more...]
