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by Ric Garrido
Toronto is a city of hospitals, hotels and skyscraper urban renewal in the downtown district north of the harbourfront. Cranes and condominiums fill the skyline. These are simply images I saw in Toronto and not a guide to things a tourist should see. The subway ride from the Bloor Yorkville luxury hotel area with Four…
On the corner of Bloor and St. George, across the street from the University of Toronto, a young black man was seeking donations for his campaign to expand Black History month from February to a year round celebration of black culture. He turned away from me once he realized I was not going to give…
Bloor Yorkville is the high-end shopping district of Toronto, sometimes referred to as the ‘mink mile’. Is that politically correct to say these days? I picked up that name from the district description in the Official Toronto Visitor Guide 2013. Toronto appeared to me as an environmentally conscious city with activists recruiting other ecologically minded…
“It’s all good in the hood,” is not an expression I expected to hear in Toronto coming out of a seven-year-old-looking white girl’s mouth as she oscillated around the sidewalk in the way kids do while waiting for her mom to find car keys. She may have been speaking urban slang or simply referring to…
One of Toronto’s main attractions is a Harbour Cruise or ferry ride over to the Toronto Islands. Centre Island is the largest of the islands. Two facts highlighted on three different tours I made while in Toronto is Hanlan Point is where Babe Ruth hit his first professional baseball home run September 5, 1914 and…
CN Tower in Toronto was for many years the tallest tower in the world (1,815 ft.) from 1975-2007. Now it has dropped to #3. Yesterday I visited the CN Tower adjacent to the Toronto Convention Center. Blogger disclosure: One of the freebies of attending TBEX Toronto is complimentary admission to a variety of Toronto attractions…
Spain was a Salvador Dali-like experience for me of time moving like melting clocks through a landscape of history, culture, and modern life. The persistence of memory from 12 days wandering or being guided through Catalonia left me with a trail of traveler impressions. My wife explains learning in this way to 5-year-old children she…
Last weekend I stayed at the Keystone Resort in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Travel Blog Exchange 2012 TBEX conference brought me to Keystone and in some ways showed the very best the resort had to offer, although the conference schedule was so packed that an extra day or two just to chill around the…
The TBEX 2012 Conference for new media travel writers kicked off June 15 at 8:15am with a Beer Road Rally for about 25 conference attendees. The event route was unknown to the individuals in the four beer vans with up to 7 members per team. Destination #1 – Denver Zoo Silverback Pale Ale – Wynkoop Brewery, Denver,…
1. Connecting with The Points Guy Brian Kelly and meeting Johnny Jet while drinking free Kronenbourg 1664 beer at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 2. Hearing Jen Leo of LA Times, Gary Arndt of Everything Everywhere, and Chris Christensen of Amateur Traveler crack witty comments while interviewing bloggers on a live podcast of This Week in Travel.…
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