Dirty weekend – Life's a Trip

Dirty weekend…

On the banks of Lake Champlain, the scars of floods and fires

12 Sep 201624 Sep 2016

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. Lakeside Apartments was already drowning. Hurricane Irene just held it under a minute to finish the job. The brown, concrete complex on the edge of Plattsburgh was built…

Dirty weekend…

Through the blinds: Once-removed from motel theatre

5 Sep 201612 Sep 2016

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. The drama played out in muffled sounds across the smooth black parking lot of the motel. Knocking first. Insistent. Hollow. Without echo, although the long low brick was…

Dirty weekend…

The not-quite ghost town of Venosta, Quebec

21 Aug 201617 May 2022

NOTE: While we always strive to contact landowners before photographing, in this instance we did not. That is trespassing and we should have done better. Don't do this. VENOSTA, Que.…

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No rest for the wicked in this cabin in the woods

16 Aug 201621 Aug 2016

GATINEAU HILLS, Que. I’m pretty sure that Airbnb was haunted. I didn’t realize it right away. We pulled in just before midnight, parking to the side of the white bungalow.…

The case of the missing dam and the great stick rescue

30 May 201614 Jun 2016

NEW RUSSIA, N.Y. The backroads from Plattsburg to West Winfield follow a wide rocky creek called the Bouquet River that appears and vanishes and curls under low bridges and behind…

A walk in the park: Flume Gorge

30 Jun 201520 Jul 2015

Part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. LINCOLN, N.H. — Some stories must be told vertically. Website developers and lovers of the iPad’s ubiquitous 1000x750 images might…