by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
(co-edited by the one in the blue scarf…aka my daughter) The versatile pink scarf is acquiring some new purposes on this trip. On safari to the “jungle” (which just looked too dry and sparse to allow my brain to categorize it as “jungle”) it was a bug screen....
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
My daughter employs her own version of her pink scarf to cover up her white skin. Inclusion and diversity are two words that are defining my adult life. My professional life and my personal life. I think about them when I travel. There are so many reasons people...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
One way Canada and India are different is that for millennials, a university degree from abroad means they stay abroad. Most Canadian kids go to undergraduate school in Canada. Even if they go away for school, they tend to come back. Our guide’s only child, a son,...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Soft and thin. Airy. Yet warm. A shield when needed. Shade sometimes. It changes my mood. And it’s traveled the world. It can make a t shirt and pants feel more special. Occasionally it’s a pillow or a blanket. It’s one of my favourite things. What’s yours?...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Aug 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
This was our last stop with the RV and it had been my good intention to write about this fabulous campground and to recommend you stop there if you were driving Highway 33 through the Kettle Valley between Highway 3 and up through to Kelowna. But our holiday memories...