Lifelong Manitoban writes about travel, food and politics out of a century-old home in one of inner-city Winnipeg's most colourful 'hoods. The forty something recovering music journalist juggles a day job as a city hall reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press with a weekend wilderness-travel column called Offroad. His work has also appeared on CBC Radio and in publications such as explore magazine, National Geographic Traveler and Western Living.