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

  “… every time a problem ends Another one begins ...” Vampire Weekend, Harmony Hall   For all you dedicated readers who have faithfully journeyed from the Atlantic to the Pacific with us along the Trans Canada Trail this far, experiencing Canada vicariously through our adventures and misadventures, we realize this blog is now long overdue.   However life, like trails are not a straight line connecting you from beginning to end or from where you begin to your goal – it is a long and crooked path.     In recent weeks not a single day has gone by when we haven't been asked the questions:   Are you still heading north this year? When are you planning to leave?   Trust us when we say, in recent weeks not a single day has gone by when we haven't been trying to answer those questions for ourselves.   There are a number of factors that have combined to make the next steps of our journey on the Trans Canada Trail uncertain.   “Best laid plans of mice and men go often as

Anyone who has completed a long-distance walk or pilgrimage knows that the post-hike blues are a very real thing.   When the rhythm of trail life is suddenly disrupted, life feels strange and off balance.   So, when you finally reach a milestone it took you four years of walking to reach, what do you do the next day? For us, the simple answer was to keep walking, at least for a little while longer.     Yesterday trekking Point Zero with members of Victoria Natural History Society passed in a blur, the details of those final kilometres utterly lost in the excitement.   Not yet ready to sit still and begin the transition back to life off-trail, we decided to redo the walk to Clover Point at a more leisurely pace, making the time to take in the scenery and do a little birding as well.   We began once again at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , which we had fondly nicknamed the ‘not parliament’ buildings due to a blunder I made a few days ago.   I had recklessly suggested w