Our Walk Along The Bruce Trail (BTC)

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”   Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière (The Captive), from In Search of Lost Time   Learning to Look Close to Home   There are journeys that begin with the desire to discover somewhere new, and others that begin because we have forgotten how much there is to discover where we already are. Our time on the Niagara Parkway and Bruce Trail belonged to the latter. When we first began walking sections of these trails in 2014, we were not yet long-distance hikers or pilgrims. We weren't thinking about crossing countries on foot, going on pilgrimage or building our lives around slow travel. We were simply spending too much time indoors, too much time at desks and in front of screens, and we wanted to get outside again.   The solution seemed almost too simple. We could walk.   Rather than travelling far away, we began exploring trails within reach of home. Beyond our own interests, ...