Days 55 and 56 August 19 & 20, 2001 Stopping to camp in High River, Alberta for few days and realizing I'm getting anxious about going home. I had learned so much about myself on this trip. Would it stick after I got back to the real world? When I get back to my teaching …
Continue reading 70/7000 An Anguished Transition- Heading Home
Days 51, 52, 53 August 15, 16 & 17, 2001 The first thing I did when I woke up in my van in the parking lot in Jasper, Alberta, was to walk over to the gas station restroom. Thankfully no one had locked it. I then drove to a quick stop and got a large …
Continue reading 70/7000 The Columbia Icefields and The Continental Divide
Day 47 August 11, 2001 A take my breath away moment, seeing Lake Louise for the first time. As I stood at the edge of the lake, very engaged in gawking with my mouth open, a ranger with a survey on a clipboard saw my potential as an extremely positive statistic. "Would you considered …
Continue reading 70/7000 Beautiful Lake Louise, The Canadian Rockies
Days 44 and 45 August 8 & 9, 2001 Crossed into Canada, I'm in Banff. Quite a tourist town! More glitz than I've seen in the last few weeks. As looked over the lake towards a beautiful mountain scene, I saw my very first bald eagle. I'm one of those people who get excited …
Continue reading 70/7000 The Eagle, the Wolf, And the Wildlife Bridge-Banff, Alberta, Canada
June 26, 2001 Yesterday's words with M.H. were aging, loneliness, inability, and dying. But today we lived new words. M.H. drove me to her yacht club so we could go sailing. She had her own sailboat and the woman who the night before worried about the inability to perform daily mundane tasks took that boat …
The Autonomous Traveler 