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Algonquin park
Into the back country. We didn't really know what to expect heading to Algonquin Park. All we knew was that it is a massive provincial park in the middle of Ontario and "it's just beautiful" from the don't drink and drive commercial. The drive there was great and it was nice to be on the back roads going through the small towns of Renfrew. We stayed ...
The Good ol' Canadian Tradition of Cottages!
... his own shadow, despite his size, along with thunderstorms and an assortmnet of other things. The highlight of the trip came when we floated down the river on our last morning. Thinking we were in distress Jack jumped into the water (another thing he's scared of) and proceeded to run, swim and bound through reed beds all the way to the end. The day a puppy became a man!
It was a sad day when we left the cottage, and I now understand why this is Karen's favourite place in the world
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A tough journey home
... breakfast this morning. We did not plan very well, though, as we forgot to bring along oil or butter. It was quite a challenge flipping the pancakes in the decidedly non nonstick borrowed frying pan. But, as Silvio put it, "If we had wanted perfect pancakes, we could have stayed home!"
Before leaving our campsite, we all went in for another swim. It was another sunny day and we decided to do ...
Mark Cocker's "Loneliness and Time"
... about Wilfred Thesiger.
"Few human experiences -- except perhaps dreams and the use of hallucenogenic drugs -- are better able to reveal the unconscious mind to the conscious than travel." (p 255)
Paul Fussell, quoted from Abroad: "A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveller, doing exactly what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, at its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the trveller at all, but ...
02 Algonquin Park
After my eviction from the US and recovering my wits at Moyra & Dave's, I meandered to Rock Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park. Got Slider setup just before big winds and a shower and it turned cold that night – broke out the HWB (hot water bottle).
The winds continued the next day so I took a hike around the Booth's ...
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