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Tianmen Mountain National Park, China. September 2017

On our trip to Zhangjaijie, China last month to see the beautiful and majestic Tianmen Mountain (天門山), we had to take a bus and long cable car ride in order to get to the very top of the mountain to see the views. (From Wikipedia: Tianmen Mountain Cableway is claimed in tourist publications as the “longest passenger cableway of high mountains in the world”.) What did we do after we were done sightseeing and photographing the beauty of the tall gigantic mountains? We took two separate smaller mini vans down back to the bottom! The rounded roads of these mountains may frighten a few people. The bus drivers had to be Continue reading →

Hotel Review: Holiday Inn Express & Suites Oshawa Downtown – Toronto Area

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Oshawa Downtown located at 67 Simcoe St N in Oshawa

October 8, 2017: Another relaxing getaway means another hotel stay! This time, we stayed in downtown Oshawa at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Oshawa Downtown. I haven’t stayed in a Holiday Inn in some time and I was super impressed with this one!

There was ample onsite parking and it was a low-level building — only about six floors or so. The lobby was spacious, so classy, and chic-looking Continue reading →

Revisiting the Fish Ladder in Port Hope, Ontario

Watching the salmon run in Port Hope, Ontario

October 8, 2017: Three years ago, I visited Port Hope in Ontario to watch the annual fall salmon run. It was my first time watching these majestic creatures defy gravity and jump through rushing water and channels in order to give their future spawn the opportunity to grow up in calm, safer waters. That fateful day was immortalized in a blog post which you can view here.

It just so happened that after my visit to the Ganaraska Fish Ladder that I was contacted Continue reading →