There is still wonder in the world. Our devices and our divisive politics want to pull our attention away from it, but it is right there, waiting to be witnessed, ours for the savoring. There is still wonder and beauty and genuine-ass grandeur in the world, if only we remember to slow ourselves down, take a breath, and get Lexus to fly us up to Canada to go looking for it.
This is what I learned when I took part in Lexus's Chasing the Northern Lights event, a mind-blowing four-day trek into the national parks of Alberta and British Columbia. We are currently in what's called a solar maximum, a once-every-eleven-years apex of the solar flares that interact with Earth's magnetic field to create the aurora borealis, so now is the ideal time for viewing, and remote Canada is the ideal place. We'd be driving the 2024 GX 550 luxury SUV into the less populated and less light-polluted parts of Banff, Kootenay, and Yoho national parks, armed with Canon EOS R cameras, bear spray, and hope.
Author The author on location. I had never actually seen the northern lights. I've spent all of my adult life living in cities, so the lights are something that I've just had to assume existed, you know, like stars.
But I was intrigued and in need of some fresh mountain air, so I was in. At our arrival point at the Fairmont Hotel in Lake Louise, featuring a body of water as crystal blue as a Halls Mentho-Lyptus Cough Drop, we met our guides for the event. Matt and Ben are Australians who have made th.
