loriannlivingstonSep 16, 20204 minGoals and the end of the trail: Day 8Stamm 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 co...
loriannlivingstonSep 9, 20205 minRural routes into urban: Day 7Intersection 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 t...
loriannlivingstonJul 15, 20207 minLessons in gratitude: Day 6Nith River on Carmel Koch Road to intersection at Carmel Koch and Notre Dame roads I am getting closer to finishing the Avon Trail. My tr...
loriannlivingstonJun 3, 20206 minBirds and bugs: Day 5Lisbon 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 t...
loriannlivingstonMay 22, 20205 minHow Pokemon GO gets me through the pandemicI’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 ...
loriannlivingstonMar 11, 20204 minCamino Primitivo: when the time is rightI’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...
loriannlivingstonOct 30, 20194 minForest bathing: Day 4Forest 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 Trai...
loriannlivingstonOct 23, 20194 minLosing the markers: Day 3Perth-Oxford Road, near Line 113, to Forest Road at Hwy 7, Stratford: 20k Another October Sunday full of sunshine, brightly coloured fore...
loriannlivingstonOct 16, 20195 minYour journey is your own: Day 2Wildwood Conservation Area to Perth-Oxford Rd., near Line 113: 16k This is the third instalment about my walk on the Avon Trail, a 113-ki...
loriannlivingstonOct 9, 20195 minFive things I learned from walking the Avon Trail: Day 1St. Mary’s to Wildwood Conservation Area: 14km At 113 kilometres, the Avon Trail winds from St. Mary’s to Conestogo. I’m practicing for w...
loriannlivingstonOct 3, 20195 minThe Avon Trail: my own mini-CaminoI threw my own party for my 40th birthday – a bona fide ceilidh complete with caller, live band and lots of friends and family. My daught...