A few weekends ago I had the opportunity to spend the weekend up in Canada with Josy from A Walk And A Lark and Lisa from West Coast Hiker Girl in Manning Park, BC, east of Vancouver. Lisa is a born and raised Canadian and knows the territory well, so she took over as our…
This post was originally shared on November 21, 2016. A post of this kind has been brewing in my head for a while now and after reading something infuriating this last week, I decided to put it to words. If you came here just to learn how to hike with others, you may need…
Editor’s note: Unfortunately the statistics in this post were on images that were lost in 2023 when I had to do an overhaul of the site and I was not able to recover them… It is interesting to look back over the last three years and how much has happened since I began in 2016. …
This is a guest post series on Must Hike Must Eat. To learn more and submit your first time story, read You Never Forget Your First Time. Warning: this post shares a post surgery incision photo. Website: Pamela Jessen Two Sentence Bio About You: Pamela Jessen lives in Langford, BC, just outside of Victoria. She is…
Social media and the online world make pretty easy targets these days. Blamed for all kinds of social ills and quite a few of the world’s problems or at least it seems. It is true that it can be overwhelming and impersonal, often displacing face-to-face interaction with our neighbor next door but I am here…
I’m sure no one out there would associate the words “middle school” and “good fit” but hear me out. I have been sharing with my email subscribers about my job search since returning from my vacation to the United Kingdom with my son at the end of summer (already a month and a half ago!). …