Today would be my first full day hiking in the Iroquioan section of the Bruce Trail. I have already mailed my travel blog to the Niagara Trail association. Starting hiking at 8AM at Beamer Conservation Area. The first 2 km or so is walking down Ridge Rd. You should keep walking until you see the communication tower and turn right. You walk for another 500 meter until you turn onto the trail. This trail runs along the edge of the Escarpment and has a nice view of the Lake in the distance. The trail is fairly level and easy to walk on. You will pass over Fifty Road and McNeilly Rd but for the most part you are just walking through the woods. I was the first one walking through that morning and I knew this ... read more

Day 4 of my hike. This is my first hike with good weather so I was looking forward to it. Drove down to the Niagara region again. I am slowly drawing closer to my home base so that each drive is a few kilometers shorter. I parked my car at the Rockway Community Center and started my hike. I took the Rockway Side Trail and connected with the Bruce Trail after a few hundred meters. The hike went downhill and you get a nice view of Rockway Falls. About 1 KM in I also ran into a group of deer that suddenly appeared near the trail. In a flash all 3 of them took off running. They were white tail deer because I saw the white flashing tails they had. The next 5 km were a ... read more

Day 2 of my hike. Decided to hike every Sunday for the first month of my journey. I should be able to hike the final few hundred kilometers sometime in August. Tried to get someone to go hiking on this leg but no one wanted to hike in freezing weather that distance so I decided to do this another way. Early morning drive to Woodend Conservation Area which is in Fonthill, ON. Temperature was -5 degrees and I was all bundled up to combat the weather but it was still a bit chilly for me. You start off the hike by climbing over a ladder to get into the hiking trail. It was an icy trail but I was making a decent time until the trail became a slushy mess and I was forced to walk ... read more

Tamara and I left the hotel at 8:30AM and headed to Ottawa for a stopover at Parliament. Ottawa is only 2 hours from Montreal so it was a relatively short drive. We parked near parliament hill and went to the ticket office for our free tickets. The tickets are free and you are assigned a time for your tour. We went through security which is similar to what you have to go through at the airport. I have been through security like this many times and I sailed through. Strangely enough Tamara was stopped and subject to a secondary search. I think she forgot to take off her watch which set off the metal detector. It was a funny moment though while the security guard use the security wand on her. The tour of parliament was ... read more

This would be my 2nd destination New Years trip. Last years in New York was so good I decided to make it a tradition. Coming with me this would be my girlfriend Tamara. We have been dating for 3 months and this would be our first trip together. She is a wonderful lady and we have a lot of fun together. It would also be a good test for our relationship because we would only have each other for 2 days+. I chose Montreal partly for geography and partly because the Montreal people I spoke to heavily recommending it for New Years. We would be staying at the Chateau Versailles which is a hotel located in Old Montreal. Thursday morning I found myself at Tamara's house. After a greeting with her dog Buffy we packed up ... read more