Having contacted loads of outfitters and tour operators about a canoe trip in the Algonquin Provincial Park, and being told that the season was over, I found a wilderness outfitter who was prepared to set me up with a voyage along the Mattawa River, following the route used by the French Voyageurs, and the native Indians before them. Two nights and three days on my own, paddling my way down the river, and camping on the way. I spent the preceding (rainy) night in a town called North Bay, in the Voyager Inn, which I thought appropriate. It was also cheap, but I noticed it had a conference on, so I figured it couldn't be that bad. Turned out it was that bad, it was an Alcoholics Anonymous conference, and the room next to me was
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