Travel Stories · Season 1
Canada Stories
Five cities, one slow look at a time — told from the photos we took standing there
We travelled through five Canadian cities with a phone in hand and no schedule worth keeping, and came home with hundreds of photographs. This season is where those photographs become stories — one place, one moment at a time, written the way we remember standing there. Volume one is Niagara: the falls from above and at arm's length, the gorge, the whirlpool, a chapel with six seats and a clock made of flowers. The other four cities are coming, volume by volume, as their photos reach us. Every picture in this season is our own, shot where we stood. The views did the preaching; we just wrote down what they said — and what they made us grateful for.
The falls themselves, from the boatMy Niagara Falls — our destination season for the falls: sailing into the mist, the Horseshoe up close, and standing at the foot of it all.Episodes
- EP 01The Falls From AboveSeven hundred and seventy-five feet up, the whole river finally makes sense — both falls, one bridge, and the gorge running away green below.
- EP 02Standing at the BrinkUp on the tower the river looked calm. Down here at the rail, it is all speed — water shouldering past, and then the edge, and then nothing but mist.
- EP 03The Smallest ChurchTen feet square, six seats, one low door — and a guest book full of travellers who stopped, the way we did, because it was there.
- EP 04A Clock Made of FlowersForty feet across, planted tens of thousands deep, and keeping time since 1950 — somebody has to replant this clock twice a year, and somebody does.
- EP 05The River BendsBelow the falls, the river makes a hard right turn — and the water that misses the turn has been circling in the Whirlpool for four thousand years.
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