Posts in Category: Canada
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Kawarthas – Fantastic Fishing on the Trent-Severn Waterway
The Kawarthas lake system, just north of Toronto, is legendary for the quantity and variety of fish species that can be caught this close to a major metropolitan area or at least that’s what the tourist jargon would have you believe. I must say I was skeptical about these claims, but having just returned from […]
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Le Massif, Quebec – Seven Reasons to Ski It and Love It
For decades I have made it a habit every winter to get my ass down to Quebec for some great skiing, Quebecois cuisine and share some of the joie de vivre that Quebecers have for winter. For the past twenty years or so it has been Alison and me, first skiing the better known hills like […]
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Le Germain Charlevoix, Baie St. Paul – Why You’ll Love It
I usually would not do an entire post based around a hotel, but Le Germain Charlevoix in Baie St. Paul, Quebec is such a unique place to stay that it merits its own post. When I first wrote this post it was the Hotel Le Ferme, but since has become a property of the trendy […]
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African Lion Safari – If You Can’t Go on a Real Safari Go Here
This is the final post from my 2014 RV trip in southern Ontario with my son Dale. We have had an incredible time exploring the markets of St. Jacob’s, canoeing and fishing the Grand River, fording the Conestogo River on horseback, cycling through Mennonite country and sailing on Lake Huron. I had no idea that […]
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Lake Huron – Cycling to Goderich and Bayfield and a Sunset Cruise
This is the sixth post from a 2014 RV trip I took with my son Dale to the Kitchener/Waterloo region of southern Ontario. Yesterday we enjoyed some great cycling through Mennonite country and then switched gears as we drove to the outskirts of the town of Goderich on Lake Huron. Today we’ll do more cycling, […]
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Cycling Mennonite Country on the Kissing Bridge Trailway
This is my fifth post from a 2014 RV trip that I took with my son Dale through the Kitchener/Waterloo area of southern Ontario. So far we explored the famed markets of St. Jacob’s, canoed on and fished for bass on the Grand River, hiked the Elora Gorge and much more. Today we’ll add cycling […]
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Grand River Fly Fishing – Bass Masters We are Not
This is day four of the 2014 RV trip that my son Dale and I took to the Kitchener/Waterloo area of southern Ontario. So far we have canoed the Grand River, shopped at the famed St. Jacob’s market, explored Elora Gorge and much more. Today we are scheduled to return to the Grand River with […]
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Elora Gorge, Mennonite Country and Fording the Conestogo River
This is the third post from the 2014 RV trip that my son Dale and I took to the Kitchener/Waterloo region of southern Ontario. So far we have canoed the Grand River, explored downtown Kitchener and visited the pretty little town of St. Jacob’s. Today we are scheduled travel through Mennonite country to Elora Gorge […]
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Kitchener – Canoeing the Grand River and Seeing the City
My son Dale and I are on our annual RV trip and this year we have chosen the Waterloo region of southern Ontario as our destination. The trip got off to a great start yesterday with a visit to the interesting town of St. Jacob’s followed by a tour of Mount Hope Cemetery in Waterloo. […]