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