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French River Voyageurs Channel Trip – Part 1

Even though we typically like to travel for at least a couple of weeks in the summer, this year it was jut not possible, but we still wanted an epic adventure. So, Dan took a couple of weeks of vacation and we sought out to plan something other than an overnight or weekend adventure. As I scoured through maps and books with different canoe routes to conquer, we settled on heading to the French River and completing a similar loop to one in Kevin Callan’s Top 50 Canoe Routes in Ontario.

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Mother-Son Trip to Algonquin – Part 2

Plan B… that’s where we left off right? Well as you read in part 1, plan A was to paddle and portage to the falls, but after realizing that it would take about 6 hours to complete the round trip we made a plan B. Hayden was very pleased to know there was a plan B which would mean us paddling back to the car – load it for the drive – and drive to the falls access trail. To be honest, I was happy that was the decision we went with for a couple of reasons…

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