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Camino del Norte
I’m a middle-aged woman and mother who has just completed an 847-kilometre Camino, travelling alone for the first time in decades. This...
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loriannlivingston
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
Goals and the end of the trail: Day 8
Stamm Woodlot on Benjamin Road to Conestogo Well, I did it. Eight days to walk the entire Avon Trail. On Sunday, as I walked the final...
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loriannlivingston
- Sep 9, 2020
- 5 min
Rural routes into urban: Day 7
Intersection at Carmel Koch and Notre Dame roads to Stamm Woodlot I think I’m down to one more hike to finish off the Avon Trail. Day 7...
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loriannlivingston
- Jul 15, 2020
- 7 min
Lessons in gratitude: Day 6
Nith River on Carmel Koch Road to intersection at Carmel Koch and Notre Dame roads I am getting closer to finishing the Avon Trail. My...
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loriannlivingston
- Jun 3, 2020
- 6 min
Birds and bugs: Day 5
Lisbon Cemetery to Carmel-Koch Road at the Nith River: 10k In my last post about the Avon Trail, late last fall, I wrote about entering...
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loriannlivingston
- May 22, 2020
- 5 min
How Pokemon GO gets me through the pandemic
I’ve just written “Day 71” on the daily journal I’m keeping since our household went into lockdown. I call my journal “Life in a time of...
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loriannlivingston
- Mar 11, 2020
- 4 min
Camino Primitivo: when the time is right
I’ve been planning to walk the Camino for 10 years, but have really ramped up my research and plans in the past two years. There are many...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
Forest bathing: Day 4
Forest Road outside Stratford to Lisbon Cemetery: 22k This is my last hike likely this year. I have done 72k of the 113k of the Avon...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 23, 2019
- 4 min
Losing the markers: Day 3
Perth-Oxford Road, near Line 113, to Forest Road at Hwy 7, Stratford: 20k Another October Sunday full of sunshine, brightly coloured...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 16, 2019
- 5 min
Your journey is your own: Day 2
Wildwood Conservation Area to Perth-Oxford Rd., near Line 113: 16k This is the third instalment about my walk on the Avon Trail, a...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 9, 2019
- 5 min
Five things I learned from walking the Avon Trail: Day 1
St. Mary’s to Wildwood Conservation Area: 14km At 113 kilometres, the Avon Trail winds from St. Mary’s to Conestogo. I’m practicing for...
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loriannlivingston
- Oct 3, 2019
- 5 min
The Avon Trail: my own mini-Camino
I threw my own party for my 40th birthday – a bona fide ceilidh complete with caller, live band and lots of friends and family. My...
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