Travel, Hikes & Walks
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Taking the High Road Across Scotland
A Post-retirement Stroll from Glasgow to Inverness
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Highland cattle are very photogenic, but you have to look out for those long, curvy horns. After a longer than anticipated break due to COVID-19, in September 2022, almost four years after they began their Coast to Coast Walk across England—and...
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Freedom Walk
Following Hadrian's Wall Path Across England
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Can you ever break free from the patterns of life? Are you really stuck with no choices? What would happen if you were diagnosed with a terminal illness? Would you find a way to change your life, even if you didn’t know how much time you had...
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Across England with a Project Manager
A Journey into Retirement
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Planning the long walk (across England) and delivering on the plan would require accountability and discipline . . . Moreover, it would be an ideal transition between working and not working, by providing an entirely different life experience,...
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To Each Their Own Camino
One Woman's Walk Along Spain's Camino de Santiago
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There I was, an average middle-aged woman living and working on Canada’s west coast. How, then, did I come to be walking this ancient path, family and friends left behind, and everything I owned in a pack on my back? Exchanging my office pumps...
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Hasten Slowly
Lessons from the Himalaya
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Gord and Gail Konantz set off on an odyssey to Asia in January 1987. It was a journey that changed their lives. Nepal was exotic and chaotic and they were to end their adventure with a challenging trek to Kala Pattar, a mountain ridge at 5,500...
