JASPER WAS IN MY HEAD for a long time before it was in my heart. It started as an earworm planted by Canadian troubadour, Gordon Lightfoot, but became an itch that needed to be scratched, all thanks to the opening verse of one song, Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
“There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run / When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun / Long before the white man and long before the wheel