All the Frills: Adventures in Camping

So I went camping back at the start of July. I usually make it out 2-3 times per year and one of those trips is a bigger one that several friends and I go on. This year we went to Waterton, an amazing place near the US/Canada border (it was a long haul to get there, about 6 hours in the car). But it was a beautiful place (we camped just outside the National Park and went in daily for hikes, strolling around town, etc). Today I'm sharing a few pictures from the trip.

Waterfalls glimpsed on one of our hikes

Nature!

A beautiful beach area

Even more nature!

A beautiful early twentieth-century hotel from the days when Waterton was a resort destination for the wealthy who travelled there by train and then stayed in style

A beautiful early twentieth-century hotel from the days when Waterton was a resort destination for the wealthy who travelled there by train and then stayed in style

A beautiful early twentieth-century hotel from the days when Waterton was a resort destination for the wealthy who travelled there by train and then stayed in style

Buffalo!

Weekend Reading:

• It’s true, cats on glass tables are pretty much the greatest thing ever.
  
  
• This collection of time capsule rooms and spaces is amazing.
  
  
• This article about the discovery of a large Viking hall had me at “large Viking.” Wait, that doesn’t sound so good.
  
  
• This article about impending massive earthquakes is a real downer. Fascinating, but a downer.
  
  
• I cannot wait for the movie Suffragette to come out. To tide me over I’ve been re-watching Amanda Vickey’s Suffragettes Forever! By the way, Amanda Vickey is an amazingly awesome historian. Her various media appearances are great but her more serious, academic history is equally brilliant (Behind Closed Doors is a personal favourite). She gave a talk at the Yale Centre for British Art when I was in grad school and I had a chance to chat with her and she was just delightful.