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Algonquin Park

Roads Less Travelled: June Camping

I made a video of our camping adventures this past week. The roads less travelled that we ventured down. Either in the truck or in the canoe.

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Algonquin Park

When Plans Get Derailed

Let’s talk about derailments for a moment, shall we? I have a story to tell. There may be profanity. So be warned. Achray Campground in Algonquin Park.     Photo courtesy of Turnipseed Travel One fall in the early nineties, Hubby and …

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Algonquin Park

Sisters in the Wilderness … and well … Sisters.

Canadian writer and biographer Charlotte Gray wrote a fabulous book a few years ago called Sisters in the Wilderness. Gray’s book is a double biography of iconic early Canadian writers and sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill, authors of Roughing …

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Algonquin Park

My Almost Last Trip to Algonquin Park

This ill-fated trip to Algonquin Park in 2014 could have been my last trip. Ever. And maybe it will be. But I am sure glad we went.

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A Walk in the Woods

The Lure of the Wilderness: Our Top Five Books

I’ve finally read Bill Bryson’s book A Walk in the Woods. I mentioned it last fall in a post about our weekend hiking trip when Hubby and I went for our own walk in the woods. I remember observing how …

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