People always advise young girls from travelling alone. Though their concern is usually for safety reasons, I’ve always avoided travelling alone because I thought I would get lonely. After all, aren’t the beautiful places in the world better enjoyed with the people you love? Then, last summer, a last-minute trip to Europe for a family wedding meant I ended up making plans to … [Read more...]
A Healing Moment in Travel
Something I haven't been ready to write about until now, is my last year, and how I have flung myself into travel to distract myself with something fun, that makes me feel good. Now I should state that we have had the idea for Roamancing for a number of years and had been planning it's launch for this very week a year ago. That didn't happen, because my Dad died, the third … [Read more...]
Yorkton Film Festival Road Tripping Shenanigans Inspired by Paddock Wood
In case you had not noticed, our lives seem to attract more than a little bit of the ridiculous, which seems to be magnified 10 fold with our yearly pilgrimage to the Yorkton Film Festival to pay homage to our most beloved Canadian film community. This only seems to have been made worse by the likes of Katrina German and the augment of our now Annual Road Trip from Saskatoon to … [Read more...]
Ross Neilsen Singing the Solo Blues at the 2012 IBC in Memphis, Tennessee
For those of you that have been reading along here and on my site this past Autumn, you might remember this week's musician from the Sufferin' Bastards, as in 'Ross Neilsen & the Sufferin' Bastards'. Seems only fitting that Ross should be featured on Tunes from the Road again, as he inspired the diversion of what was suppose to be a road trip to … [Read more...]
Jesse Roper Roamancing the IBC Great Canadian Polar Bear Blues Showcase
Love the road trip and love our tunes from the road! So why not make the pilgrimage to the heart of rock n' roll in Memphis, Tennessee to acquire a bit more road tripping music? That is just what we did, in the nick of time to catch the International Blues Challenge and a whole tonne of great blues. Amazing the talent out there, but didn't really expect to discover so much … [Read more...]