Testing and tasting Atlantic Canada . . . on wheels
Toronto’s CN Tower was less than five years old in 1980 when Ken Langley and I set off from its base in an attempt to
East Germany, 1980… A damp November wind howled as we zeroed in on the border post. This would be a tough one. After all, in
Kuwait City, Kuwait….. March, 1984 In 1984, Kuwait was the wealthiest country in the world per capita. Its port was the most efficient on the
All the way through Pakistan’s Sandy Desert, I thought about my three young daughters, Lucy, Natalie and Layla, back home in Nova Scotia. But I
“What kind of weapons are you carrying?” It was the question I didn’t want to hear. The matter-of-fact way in which Ahmad Homayouni asked made
Summer, 1987… Somewhere between Tierra del Fuego, South America and Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’d been on airplanes for almost 24 hours. The ordeal involved a
The accommodation wasn’t much, a strip of rooms with a dusty, potholed parking lot handy the airport. There were no screens on the windows and
May, 1978… Panama City, Panama. My girlfriend at the time, Solange Fortin, and I had just spent a few days in Panama City, Panama. After five
Note: The following is a report on the new-for-2011 Bentley Continental GT, which was unveiled to a contingent of international auto journalists in Muscat, Oman
I awoke at 5:20 that April morning on a flat car at the end of a creeping freight train. Ken and our Ethiopian guide,
