At 8:00 this morning our tour guide, Ryan, picked us up at the hostel and together with five other adventurers, we set out for Cape Breton Island. Adventurers is the appropriate term, too. This is a bunch of travel aficionados, most of whom are at least two decades younger than we are. The conversation all the way to Cape Breton was about people's travel adventures. One young woman on this tour, Gina, a Californian, amazed us when she revealed that she is just getting back into hiking after nearly losing her life in a 150-foot fall three years ago when hiking on the Half Dome in Yosemite. You can see her story and pictures at http://http://theunfoldingself.wordpress.com/ We spent much of the day today traveling to and through the Cape Breton Highlands, with many stops along the
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