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ConnecTour Chronicles: Warmshowers hosts have equally warm spirits

by Doug Firby | Jul 21, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on MB, FREE content, Get outside, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Members offer a place for touring cyclists to pitch their tents and grab a shower. In exchange: an evening of conversation (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: Cheap rural living brings brewery dream to life

by Doug Firby | Jul 19, 2021 | Business, ConnecTour, Entrepreneurs, Eye on SK, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Small business, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 12 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Nokomis Craft Ales is putting this Prairie town on the map – defying conventional thinking that only the big city yields success (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: Out of the blue, an army on the prowl

by Doug Firby | Jul 14, 2021 | ConnecTour, Environment, Eye on MB, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Travel | 0

This is part 11 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: The bees came at us like a fleet of enemy fighter planes. ‘They started just hitting me. It was kind of like a cloud of bees’ (FREE)

A sudden, frightening crash sidelines one of our cyclists

by Doug Firby | Jul 12, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on SK, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 10 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: ‘I threw down my bike and ran over to her. She was lying still on the pavement, entangled in her bike’ (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: A pool party on the Prairies

by Doug Firby | Jul 4, 2021 | ConnecTour, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 9 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: A couple of us, suffering from physical and heat exhaustion, laid down and passed out for a few minutes of respite. But there was a neighbourly antidote to a heat wave (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: Even in Banff, COVID-19 has left its mark

by Doug Firby | Jun 28, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 8 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Tattoo artist Robb Syre moved to the Alberta mountain resort town to chase a dream with his best friend. Instead, he lost his friend to the virus (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: An artistic treasure trove in a former biker bar

by Doug Firby | Jun 23, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 7 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: By the door is an original painting by renowned Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau, one of dozens of pieces in Wilking’s collection (FREE)

ConnectTour Chronicles: Highlights, lowlights and lessons learned so far

by Travel Like This | Jun 21, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 6 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Learn to take it one pedal stroke at a time. And even though that hill can look intimidating, just get into the zone and take it slow (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: Content to live with old mining town’s ghosts

by Doug Firby | Jun 15, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 5 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Some of our group chose to sleep outside in tents rather than risk the ire of these troubled spirits. Two brave souls slept inside (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: A brush with heat stroke and then hypothermia

by Doug Firby | Jun 10, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Travel | 0

This is part 4 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Transport trucks, cars and four-by-fours roared by us, some so close we were showered in road spray and rocked by the wind gusts (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: One man’s gear is another man’s gold

by Travel Like This | Jun 7, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel | 0

This is part 3 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Across from our campsite sat a gangly young man named Scott, who had been homeless for 10 years and was trying to find some normalcy (FREE)

Are we ready for the tourism rebound?

by David Fuller | Jun 5, 2021 | Business, FREE content, Travel | 0

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: As tourists start their migration toward Canada’s attractions, there’s some hesitancy about the readiness of the industry to manage a tsunami of people (PREMIUM)