For at least a year now I’ve been dreaming to sail around the Manicouagan Reservoir (or “Eye of Quebec”) way up North in Canada. I’ve read other accounts of people traveling around the lake, studied weather, prepared my equipment, and planned away. This summer I set aside 10 days to complete the journey and drove [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Knowing When
Posted in Adventure, Nomadics, tagged Adventure, Canada, Eye of Quebec, Manicouagan Reservoir, Sailing, Trans Canada on September 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One cool hitch hiker – Quentin, a very brave organic farmer
Posted in Nomadics, Randomness, tagged Bear, Canada, Farming, Hitch Hiker on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Quentin was on his way to a blue berry farm to do some WWOOFING (that means do some farming in exchange for room and board, made possible by the World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms organization http://www.wwoof.org/). Quentin turns out to be a degreed organic farmer and bee keeper from Normandy, France. He’ll be assisting with [...]
Random Photo
Posted in Randomness, tagged Canada, Goose, random photo, Wawa on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is Wawa’s really really big goose. I always thought Wawa was just “the Wa” (Princeton’s convenience store with bad coffee and basic grocery items). It turns out Wawa, Ontario is an old town with a history of mining and fur trading. Today, Wawa is facing the possibility of housing a nuclear waste facility in [...]
