About

I’m Julie Ovenell-Carter, a wanderlusty Canuck with good boots, good sense, and a good way with words and this is your go-to guide for Canadian travel tips.

I suspect I caught the travel bug as an infant when I came to Canada from England in the luggage rack of a Trans-Canada Air Lines DC-8. At age seven, I published my first travel article in an orange Hilroy notebook: a hand-written account of my family’s cross-Canada road trip, illustrated with carefully selected postcards.

Julie Ovenell-Carter

Today, I still travel with a pen. I am long-standing member of the Travel Media Association of Canada and until the fall of 2009, I was an active member of the Society of American Travel Writers. (My decision not to renew with that organization is a story I’ll share with anyone who cares enough to ask.) My articles and photographs have appeared internationally, and I also blog for InsideVancouver.ca.

I’m an islander by address though not necessarily by nature. My home port for the past 20 years has been Snug Cove on  Bowen Island, BC, and while it really is a tiny piece of paradise so close to the city of Vancouver, I find I appreciate its quirky charms all the more after a good ramble in the wider world.

I blog and tweet (www.twitter.com/theseboots) about travel in Canada–the kinds of things I might tell my friends around the water-cooler at work. Please refer to my disclosure statement.

I generally favour the positive–in life and in travel reviews–but I will occasionally squawk when necessary for the good of my fellow travellers.

How to get my attention:

If you’re in PR and want to get my attention, please send me a personal email: thesebootstravel [at] gmail.com.

Please don’t start spamming me with press releases that are not relevant to my focus, which is all of Canada, or areas that are easily reached in one short non-stop flight from Canada (so Las Vegas and Los Angeles and Phoenix and Puerto Vallarta would count, but Cairo not so much).

Thanks for visiting, and please feel free to leave a comment or to get in touch on any travel-related subject: thesebootstravel [at] gmail.com.

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This work by Julie Ovenell-Carter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.