En route to Glasgow from southern Scotland a few weeks ago, I decided to hitchhike. I could have taken a bus and then a train, but it was a nice summer day, I was in no rush — and thumbing a ride is always interesting. The bloke who picked me up, a picture framing machine…
Back in my Can Geo days, I went looking for a hut-to-hut hiking route in Canada to write about for our quarterly travel magazine. I found an excellent trail in Quebec’s Charlevoix region — and it had a luggage-shutte service!
I walked from Toronto to my family’s cabin (i.e., shack) in cottage country a couple years ago. It took four days, and included a couple of boat rides. An article about the trek ran in an excellent magazine called Cottage Life in October 2012, but, sadly, it’s not online. Email me — danrubin at sympatico dot…
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