“It builds character.” These words of encouragement, long-favoured by well-intentioned relatives and friends, cycled endlessly in my mind as I sat behind my faux-wood desk in my soon-to-be-former cubicle on the west side of the fourteenth floor of Gulf Canada Square in suddenly not-so-opportunity-filled Calgary. I was numb. A few minutes prior, my phone had […]
Aspen Crossing Campground, Cabins & Restaurant – Review
I discovered Aspen Crossing early last summer while searching for potential campgrounds we could go to after a couple of our booked camping weekends were washed out, literally, by the June flood. Though we didn’t actually camp there last summer, this past autumn I did book a night in the Canadian Pacific caboose cabin and […]