Hitherin Yawn

It’s our last full day in Ontario! We awoke at dawn — noting as we glanced at our phone that dawn comes a bit later out here. We must be getting closer to the Western edge of this time zone. Anyway, we packed up and hiked into Dresden for breakfast. After dining at Tim Horton’s,…

Today’s vlog is a quiet one, as I didn’t have a lot to say. But that doesn’t mean there was nothing to see. For several days, I’ve been seeing these peculiar designs painted on barns or freestanding signboards. Sometimes the barn would look like the thought of falling down had crossed its mind, but it…

The people I’ve met over the last couple of days have been exceptionally friendly and generous and helpful. In this video, I’ll tell you about two different encounters and how each of them played out. I’m not much for naming names, especially without asking for permission. But you know who you are, and I hope…

Herein you’ll see various scenes from the “rail trail” connecting St. Thomas to Dutton, Ontario. Turned out most of it wasn’t a rail trail at all. I’m still not certain what it was — a former railroad bed, certainly. A right-of-way of some kind. But also an ATV track, paved with loose rock or shingle….

As we continue to make our way toward a much-needed hotel stay in St. Thomas (rest, get clean, use the wifi, etc), I muse aloud about the meaning of gorp and why I switched pronouns — using “we” in these vlogs instead of “I”. We are now a bit more than halfway through the Canadian…

For the second consecutive night, I camped in a place with little or no signal. The previous night I durn near ran out of battery trying to get the day’s vlog to upload. Last night my phone was already low on charge, so I made an executive decision to put off posting until I reached…

Here are some of the scenes seen and thoughts thunk while walking from Cayuga to Simcoe. I began the day on Route 3, a fairly busy country highway. But after a lunch break at Jarvis, I found an alternate route: a parallel road that didn’t see anywhere near the volume of traffic and even boasted…

When the sign says “Bridge Out,” it rarely means the entire bridge has been washed away. Unless you’re on a movie set, in which case it’s almost a certainty. But cinematic considerations aside, bridges these days are built pretty solidly. Chances are, most of it is still going to be intact. What’s dangerous for a…

As I say in this video, one of my primary concerns about hiking in Southern Ontario is where to spend the night. This is farm country, and it is by no means crowded, but places where you can slip out of sight and rest your hooves for the night are scarce. In the video, I…

Took the day off today — a planned break to rest my feet and get some administrative things sorted. Kirsten and I did take a boat ride that got us practically right under the Falls, but the Falls are well-documented in a thousand pictures and videos. As I said yesterday, nothing prepared me for the…