Dancing Trees Cottage
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Bancroft
... After a short stop where our stomachs got a chance to recover, Mary had had enough so I took the wheel for the drive home. Perhaps no surprise, I was heckled from the back seat for letting so many branches scratch past the side of the truck. Mary declared herself the clear winner in the four wheeling challenge (ie less branches hit).
All in all a fine visit and it was really nice to catch up with Shane and Beth on their home ...
The Good ol' Canadian Tradition of Cottages!
... days than the previous three months, away from distractions like phone, internet and TV. Every so often we would drag ourselves from the couch and go for a nice paddle in the canoe, walk in the forest, or swim in the river.
Jack the dog also loves it here! He is in his element, Karen's parents got the labrador poodle cross three years ago when they were looking for a small dog that doesn't shed fur. Enter Jack, the 3ft tall giant that sheds white fluffy hair everywhere! He's ...
Summer cottage
After having some Pho at a Vietnamese restaurant with my uncle, we made the two and a half hour drive from Toronto to Apsley. Here we arrived at the Sherkin's beautiful summer house cottage on the lake. All five Sherkins, Bonnie and Derek, my Uncle Barry and Aunt Elaine, ...
Finding the perfect campsite
We arrived at the Portage Store at 10.30 this morning to pick up our equipment for our backcountry trip. Not having rented anything but canoes before, we did not really know what to expect and were pleasantly surprised by the rental contents and the quality explanation that went with it.
Two students explained every piece of equipment – from the tent to the MSR Whisperlite stove to the water purification ...
Mark Cocker's "Loneliness and Time"
... yet in somehow avoiding their sense of European superiority "he appears wholly distinct from the explorers of the past."
His best books are Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs. In a style well suited to the desert lands he describes, he avoids the prolixity of many earlier explorers. Arabian Sands is "a quest for and celebration of both the masculine severity and atavistic pleasures of the pagan world. [Thesiger refers to] 'the richness of meat; the taste ...
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