Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

We discovered a passion for hiking while at university together in southern Ontario, and we have spent as much time as we can away from our computers ever since, hiking, kayaking, travelling, and camping across Canada. My love of birds, nature, and the outdoors led me to a career in environmental conservation, while Sean has transitioned into the world of freelance writing and landscape photography.     While we both spend quite a lot of our working days in front of computers, we take every opportunity we can to get outside and explore, disconnect from the digital world, and recharge. We completed our first medium-distance hike in 2016, when we walked 800 km along the Camino Frances, from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiagode Compostela , Spain. We followed this with a 780 km hike along the Via Podiensis, from Le Puy-en-Velay, France to Roncesvalles, Spain in 2017. In 2018 we walked 250 km along the East Coast Trail in Newfoundland , which is also part of the Great Trail (formerl

You might think that making the decision to leave a good job, a nice house, friends, family, and pets to hike 13,500+ km across Canada along the Trans Canada Trail would be something so monumental that you would remember the exact moment it was made, perhaps because it happened after some huge, life-altering experience like losing a partner, being fired from a job, or having someone close to you pass away. However, in our case you would be wrong. Ever since we hiked 800 km across Spain on the Camino de Santiago in 2016 we have been continually looking for our next big hike. In 2017 we chose to walk 780 km across France along the Via Podiensis (GR 65) . In between these trips we have regularly hiked large sections of Ontario's beautiful Bruce Trail, covering close to 650 km so far. After these experiences the idea came to us and slowly started to grow - why not explore more of our own country? As the magnitude of this endeavour began to dawn on us, we started to take a hard l