Stories | TravellingOyster.com - Part 2

Family Travel Story: Nightmare Inn

 A TRAVEL HORROR STORY

After having woken suddenly and without reason in the middle of the night, I was finally drifting back off to sleep.  Then I heard something.  It sounded like voices in the distance.  Tracking the direction, it sounded like it was coming from the clearing in front of the rusty, abandoned trucks we had seen earlier.  My heart began to beat faster.  My mind raced.  I pictured rituals including blood sacrifice.  Maybe she was chanting spells.  Through slitted eyelids I glimpsed flickering light.  How did it get so close?  The voices had seemed far away… (more…)

Multi-Family Travel Story: Let’s Go Away Together

VACATIONING WITH GOOD FRIENDS AND THEIR FAMILIES

Fifteen years ago, while still in school, peers were the people with whom I spent the majority of my leisure time.  Life was exciting and we shared a great deal.  There was (it seems now) all the time in the world to devote to nurturing friendships.  My closest friends and I have been together through graduation, first jobs, relationships, weddings.  We dreamed of raising families who would grow together.  And then, my husband and I moved to Edmonton (more…)

Family Travel Story: Weekend Escape

AN IMPROMPTU ROADTRIP ADVENTURE

Billions of sparkling lights spread out above us.  The bright stars.  The dimmer stars.  The band that marks the Milky Way.  How I have missed seeing the night sky away from Edmonton’s city lights!

I hold my 22-month old son close to me.  Wrapped in a light blanket over his fall jacket, his teeth are still chattering as he admires the view.  “Stars!”  he says.  (more…)