Hiking With All My Senses
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Nan Shepherd, Canongate Canons, 2014, 160 pages. (With a foreword by John Macfarlane and an afterword by Jeanette…
Women Walking
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, 2020, Kerri Andrews, Reaktion Books Ltd., 304 pages, London, England. A walker herself, Kerri Andrews takes readers on journeys with 10 fascinating women in…
A Boneshaking Ride on a Velocipede: The Beginning of Cycle Touring
A Canterbury Pilgrimage/An Italian Pilgrimage, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell & Joseph Pennell, The University of Alberta Press, 2015 (with a wonderful and detailed Introduction by Dave Buchanan), 149 pages …
On Pilgrimage
A finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction, On Foot to Canterbury: A Son’s Pilgrimage is a contemplative read that, I predict, will make you itch…
Edited in Prisma app with Thota Vaikuntam
Textures of the Bruce Peninsula
Late November, before the pandemic's second wave, my partner Alex and I spent a few days hiking in and around Lion's Head on the Bruce Peninsula. What a treat. I…
An Adventure of Another Sort
How to cope with your adventurous soul. My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure, Alastair Humphreys, William Collins, London, England, 258 pages, 2019 If you have the adventure travel…
Hiking into Nature, Desire and Soul
The Road is How: A Prairie Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire, and Soul By Trevor Herriot* Harper Collins, 2014 As a writer, Trevor Herriot is audacious; as a man he’s struggling…
Hiking in Southern Patagonia – Facts & Info
Hiking in Southern Patagonia – Facts & Info by Linda Pim * Given these crazy COVID times, you won't be travelling to Patagonia this April. But if you read Linda Pim's first…
Hiking Patagonia
by Linda PimPatagonia is the large region of southern Argentina and Chile extending from the Rio Colorado to the Strait of Magellan and from the Andes to the Atlantic coast. The…
Views, Ruins and Good Friends (aka Mexico)
I entitled this post "Views, Ruins and Good Friends" since that is what you get on this three-hour hike. It's one of my favourites in and around Patzcuaro, Mexico where…