Dale Dunlop, Canadian Travel Writer | The Maritime Explorer

Alberta

Thursday, September 11th, 2025

In late August 2025 Alison and I embarked on a mini-golf tour of Alberta which started with the Wolf Creek Links course just outside of Ponoka. As I explained in my hole-by-hole post, avoiding the …

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  • Death Valley Road
    • 17.2.2019
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    California

    Death Valley in Winter – Simply Awesome

    I recently made my first and possibly last visit to Las Vegas which lived down to my expectations. After five days of total artificiality I couldn’t wait to get out of town to see something real, experience something natural and breathe fresh air. Looking at a map of the west, I realized that Death Valley […]

  • Dominion of Canada, Stirling Castle
    • 14.2.2019
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    Scotland

    Stirling Castle – Canada Comes to Scotland

    This is post number eighteen on last summer’s wonderful Medieval Britain: Castles, Cannons & Crowns tour put on by my friends at Liberation Tours. In the last one we visited Glenfinnan and Glencoe. Sadly we are nearing the end, but definitely not going out with a whimper, but rather a bang as we head for one […]

  • Courtyard, Quinta Real
    • 9.2.2019
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    Oaxaca

    Quinta Real – An Oasis in Oaxaca

    I rarely write entire posts on one hotel, but once in a while one comes along that is so exceptional that it warrants a post on its own; such is the Quinta Real in Oaxaca. Our group stayed there for four nights on a recent trip to Central Mexico with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad, […]

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