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Having missed out on a European gap year in his 20s, Wheeland goes on a walkabout 40 years later.
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The end of the world as we know it …
I'm taking an indefinite break from my travel stories as I deal with anxiety on the home front
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Take out the clowns
We always knew billionaires ran the U.S. government. Now it's just more open.
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Time for reflection
While travelling Europe, I was often asked how Americans could have elected someone like Trump. I had no idea, but the thought of his re-election made…
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Leaving, on a jet plane
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Dealing with loss on the road
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If I could walk 500 miles
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No safe harbour? Then build one!
The construction of two "Mulberry" harbours on D-Day beaches was an engineering and tactical marvel, planned in secrecy … and almost obliterated by a…
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The first battle of D-Day
The glider-borne assault of two German-held bridges was also the first victory of the day as 180 British light infantrymen landed behind enemy lines…
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The house that Canada… shot
The first French home liberated on D-Day was captured by a squad of Canadian soldiers 20 minutes after landing on bloody Juno beach. Today it's known as…
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From beach to bunker
Many Canadians would become heroes in the Battle of Normandy, but many more would be haunted by what they saw—and sometimes by what they did—on the road…
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Inspiration sur-la-mer
A detour down the Normandy coast takes me to the Fécamp hometown of William the Conquerer and the iconic cliffs of Étretat.
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Remembering the disaster at Dieppe
Two years before D-Day, Canadians led the charge in a poorly-planned raid on the French coastal port that would be their costliest battle of the war.
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"You Can't Kill a City"
But an estimated 3,000 citizens lost their lives while two-thirds of the French city of Caen was destroyed by Allied bombing in July, 1944
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Sixty-something Solo
Sixty-something Solo
A journalist and traveller, I am a solo explorer in his 60s sharing road stories for the edification and amusement of whoever might like to listen in.
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