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Welcome to Leigh McAdam’s blog. Leigh is addicted to adventure travel, bike tours, hiking and walking tours, culturally interesting vacations and the odd wildly epic day. Her weakness is sharing tales and helping others engage in the joy of adventure travel on bike, foot, skis, kayak etc in lands near and far. She has over 3 decades of travel experience which includes trips to 50 countries, all of Canada’s 10 provinces (and the Yukon and Northwest Territories) and most of the states in America. Her blog is a pan full of golden adventure travel nuggets!
Greening Up Your Travels: What Makes a Hotel Green?
Today is the second installment in my Greening Up Your Travel series. What makes a hotel green? It seems that this innocuous question has no easy answer. There are over 800 green certifications obtainable around the world – a mind boggling number – and I can only imagine the huge amount of overlap between organizations. LEED (Leadership in Energy and [...]
Eternal Sunshine for the Outdoor Mind
I’m not a fan of gyms. You won’t get me near an elliptical machine or indoor rock climbing, and even uttering the words “spin class” in my presence is sure to elicit a glare of disgust. I don’t subscribe to the idea of taking activities that were born outdoors inside, under lights and bathing in [...]
Finding Happiness in Nose Hill Park
I’m in the midst of two photography courses – one I love and one I endure. They both require effort and time – if I’m to get anything out of them – which only adds to the feeling of living a time crunched life. Yesterday I was over the top busy – more with house [...]
A Bike Ride of Discovery in Calgary
You and I both know it’s May – a month where we’re supposed to find joy in the outdoors after a long winter in. Well on Saturday Calgary threw its inhabitants the equivalent of the finger – and sent giant snowflakes falling to the ground for the better part of the day. I am definitely [...]
Exploring the Blue Ridge in the San Gabriel Mountains, CA
Today’s guest post is compliments of Cliff Bandringa, a native of southern California and one half of the team behind two sites - BackRoadsWest and VirtualToursWest. He gives us an insider’s look on how to beat the summer heat of LA and the Mojave Desert. Originally living in the Los Angeles basin and now living [...]
Berlin: Educational Tours
Europe is the kind of place that offers countless possibilities in terms of architecture, especially if you are a design or art student eager to explore the world. Berlin seem to be the right choice for an educational visit, due to its interesting and truly impressive urban beauty that makes it perfect for a learning [...]
Welcome to St. Marys, Georgia
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of St. Marys, Georgia. I hadn’t until I started planning our trip to Savannah and Charleston. I wanted to include Cumberland Island in our itinerary but the one hotel on the island was way out of our price range. But as it turns out, you can stay in St. [...]
Greening Up Your Travels – Green Travel Tip #1
As a traveler I know I use up more resources than a non-traveler. I wish it wasn’t so. I’m not inclined to give up travel but I would like to do better, to be more aware and to understand the consequences of my actions. I can start with myself and try harder to be green. [...]
Cycling Spain: Ardales to Ronda
Last November my husband and I cycled the Andalusia region of Spain, jumping from white village to white village. Here’s an account of our last day on the bike. The final day of cycling took us from Ardales to Ronda, a distance of only 45 kilometers, through some truly beautiful country – past rock faces [...]
About
I’ve been all over the world – to all continents but Antarctica and to a grand total of 53 countries. I’ve always got some sort of an adventure planned – even if it’s only a weekend. I thrive on change and travel provides that.
Feel free to email me at
leighmcadamtravels@gmail.com
Book Reviews
Book Review: Leading at the Edge
Though it’s been almost 100 years since Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage, his leadership style and lessons in the face of adversity still ring true. Those lessons are used as a backdrop for Dennis N.T. Perkin’s book, Leading at the Edge. Dennis brings his considerable talent as the CEO of The Syncretics Group, a company that specializes in effective [...]
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