Traveling Light Blog by Travel Writer Colleen Friesen

Paddling Through the Morning Fog

I’m finally putting up this article from the Prince George Free Press July 2010.

I find it hard to believe that the kayak trip I describe only took place a year ago.

In so many ways, it might as well have happened in another lifetime. How does that work? 

Time feels thick with all the images, experiences, traveling and happenings since that trip.  But looking through my photos and reading this article, that I wrote almost a year ago, reminds me how much I loved that week of kayaking in the Johnstone Straits.

I’m looking forward to our upcoming kayak trip that starts on the 23rd of this month. I can only hope the weather’s as nice as good as what we experienced last August. 

Puppet Waiting in Prague

This following article is from the Surrey Now newspaper. It’s a a short piece I did about my impressions of Prague from last September. That trip too, is like something that happened in another far-off time and almost to someone else.

Incredible, how it all layers and deepens. I think of it like an old piece of furniture that’s been painted over and over. Scratch a little past that surface coat of creamy white and you’ll suddenly come upon a vivid layer of lime green, revealing our trip to Prague, dig through another layer of turquoise paint and then you’ll find Hungary, and on it goes… layer upon layer of colours, images, words and memories.