Thanks to all the people that work in the transportation industry, I am home in Canada. I met kind and helpful people on and by the various trains I took from St. Ives to Liverpool. From Liverpool to the Tube from the tube in London to the train to London Gatwick Airport, the crew at the airport and on the plane. The Go Bus drivers and ticket sellers and a taxi got me to Julie and Rob's house where I thankfully "borrowed" my car from them which I oddly still know how to drive! After a good nights sleep, I am heading north. I have been thinking about all those bus, train, air and ship people working to get people and goods around the world. That's where my feeling of gratitude goes this morning. The emptyish trains, buses and plane shows me that people are getting the message to stay at home which is great. I liked the marked off area of the first Go bus, giving distance to the driver from the passengers. All plane crew, train crew and busdrivers were wearing gloves which is great too.
I am heading to my Mom's camp on Tilton Lake outside of Sudbury for my two weeks of isolation. Like other times this year, I will be away from the internet and wifi. I will have a regular phone though! I will enjoy the early spring, melting snow, melting lake and night sky. The only thing missing is my Mom!
I will follow the news and make new adventure plans when Prime Minister Trudeau says I can leave Ontario. I might be in Northern Ontario in time for the great blueberry pollinators.
Lynne, So happy to hear you are "home" in Canada, safe and sound. I am sorry that your international travel was shortened from what you had planned. Knowing you my friend, your adventure isn't over, you will still find wonders in Canada, in 2 weeks. Take care, Diane B. xo
Whew! Glad you're back in Canada-land! Yes, I'm sure you will continue the adventure! In the meantime, hope to somehow touch base, whenever you're settled! Thinking of you! xoxocathy
I’m so glad that you have made it home safely! Allison had a similar experience getting home from France. I second your comments about the wonderful transportation workers!
We are so glad to hear that you are back at home.....Canada. We have been following you and your travels. Jo-Ann and I got back from the US on March 17th, just before the borders closed. Keep in touch.
One of my homework assignments for the forest therapy course is to find a “sitspot”, a place to sit with the natural world and allow nature to work its way in. My sitspot on the ship is in the bow of the U deck. When the crew is working on the deck, it can be quite noisy and some parts of the engine are noisy too. I am glad to have my fancy musician’s earplugs. They allow me to hear everything (even small details) but they lower the decibel level to protect hearing. I use these when I need to. But at the bow, there is a miraculous quiet, and I listen to the waves against the ship, watching the birds and the changing sky. On the starboard side in the early afternoon, or the portside in the morning, I find the most exquisite variations in blue. Perhaps I’ll see a greenish blue--let’s call it aqua, or a light greyish blue or on cloudy days a darker grey like a blackboard. I love to see the particular blue that falls somewhere between denim and royal blue with...
The first weekend after school was very busy, packing up my home of 26 years and saying good bye. I couldn't have done it without the help! Thanks to Jannie, Emma, Lea, George, Donna, Richard, Jean, Cait, Kevin and Patricia, I became homeless in a gentle way. Thank you everybody! I got by with a little help from my friends... (click here) On Canada Day, Kevin and I went to Rattlesnake Point, Crawford Lake and the Royal Botanical Gardens. What a lovely day! From July 2-5 we went camping with the O'Neill kids at the Pinery. What a beautiful beach, and even though we got sunburned, we both enjoyed being with the kids. While waiting to acquire my Chinese Visa in Toronto, I stayed in luxury at Stephanie's house. This was the pillow on the bed. It was perfect. When I got the visa, I took the Ontario Northland to Sudbury for a love-in with my Mom and my paddleboard. Mom helped me reduce my backpack load by 15lbs! It is now a mana...
Yellowknife is a beautiful place! Unfortunately, there was a lot of smoke at first from a forest fire in the neighbourhood--it was quite a surprise when getting off the plane! Apparently the fire was about 40km away and sometimes blowing toward Yellowknife. It had abated in 2 days. My first night there, I met Leone and Clem of "Buffalo Nights Bed and Breakfast." Clem actually hunts buffalo, but hasn't for a while since it's too much meat. There was a gigantic taxidermied head of one of the "little" ones he got. The view from their house overlooks Great Slave Lake from a high rocky hill. So gorgeous! I stayed at Fred Henne Territorial Park for 5 days, on a rocky hill. I read 4 novels sitting down at the beach of Long Lake, which is, of course, long and also shallow and chilly. I took a picture of my first coffee made. I still didn't have fuel, so I got boiling water from the gatehouse. I placed it so you could see the veins of pink ...
Lynne, So happy to hear you are "home" in Canada, safe and sound. I am sorry that your international travel was shortened from what you had planned. Knowing you my friend, your adventure isn't over, you will still find wonders in Canada, in 2 weeks.
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DeleteWhew! Glad you're back in Canada-land! Yes, I'm sure you will continue the adventure! In the meantime, hope to somehow touch base, whenever you're settled! Thinking of you! xoxocathy
ReplyDeleteI’m so glad that you have made it home safely! Allison had a similar experience getting home from France. I second your comments about the wonderful transportation workers!
ReplyDeleteWe are so glad to hear that you are back at home.....Canada. We have been following you and your travels. Jo-Ann and I got back from the US on March 17th, just before the borders closed. Keep in touch.
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