INSIDE with the Festival Nomad (No. 8)

 Over the years I have attended, worked with and organized hundreds of festivals and events. With this new series, "INSIDE with the Festival Nomad", I want to give you an "inside" look at some of the festivals and events that I have been involved with or that I have visited. Along the way, I have had a lot of fun and sometimes frustration, but I have never been bored!

ACROSS CANADA …

Just before we moved to Cobourg, we traveled across Canada for almost two months. This was a trip designed to promote Buckhorn Publishing products and the wildlife artist, Michael Dumas. Buckhorn Publishing had been working with the Federal Government and its national parks volunteers, the Canadian Parks Partnership. Edwin Matthews, owner of Buckhorn Publishing had developed a number of Michael Dumas fine art products for the “Partnership” to sell at their stores in each of the National Parks. It was Judi’s and my job to travel across Canada and visit as many National Parks as possible. Along the way we were to try to find other sales and marketing opportunities. This took us to all sorts of fascinating attractions and events. In the course of our travels, we met all kinds of interesting people! Our journey included visiting National Parks such as Riding Mountain in Manitoba, Waterton-Lakes in Alberta and Pacific Rim in British Columbia. Along the way we also visited zoos, museums and wildlife societies. It was an eye-opening trip, full of adventure, fun and some danger. Over the next few articles, I hope to give you a sense of the things we saw and experienced, including being stopped at the USA/Canadian border, running out of gas in the middle of nowhere, being chased by a buffalo, standing 10 feet from Queen Elizabeth II, being pulled over by the RCMP and watching sea otters play in the setting sun!