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Airbus A380 Transatlantic Flight

January 2, 2011

Slowly sipping my coffee, I looked around me with unbelieving eyes. The large waiting area of gate A6 at JFK's Terminal 4 was full. It was hard to grasp that all these passengers were going to fit on board a single plane. But then again, the giant aircraft parked just outside in the cold, on a snowy tarmac, was no ordinary plane. The Emirates Airbus A380-800 about to whisk us over the Atlantic all the way to Dubai - at 41,000 feet and close to the speed of sound - was simply the largest passenger jet ever built. Here...

First snow

December 19, 2009

Shyly, slowly, New York skies have begun to sprinkle the year's first gentle snow. As we are packing our bags for tomorrow's long train ride to Montreal, listening to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 while the cat follows our every move with suspicious eyes, the light is dimming outside and we can hope to wake up to a white world. Better, still, the countryside might be snowy. End of a long road. A new one soon to appear behind some hills. Scary freedom. Time to recover. To rest. To plan. And of course, like cats, to land back...

In the Lions Den

June 22, 2006

When I got up at 6:00 am, I rushed out of the house to look north at the mountains. The sky was blue above me but a layer of low clouds topped the entire Coast Mountains and the Lions were nowhere to be seen. Qu’à cela ne tienne. The forecast was calling for an afternoon clearing and I decided to have faith. The trail to the Lions starts in the little town of Lions Bay, just north of West Vancouver’s Horseshoe Bay. I hopped on a bus, then a second, and a third and by 8:45 am, the C12 Community Shuttle was dropping...

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