Stay-cationing

About a year ago I listened to an interview on the CBC with author George Monbiot, who studies and writes about the disastrous impact of air travel on the environment - leaving what he calls "love miles" as the only real reason people should emabark on the pollution masters we call airplanes - and even then, no more then once every forever.

While there is a world of wonders out there just waiting to be flown to, Mr. S and I have really tried to focus on what adventures there are in the backyard of this vast country we live in .

We took full advantage of being in the northern part of Ontario last weekend to explore all that we could before the city and our day jobs demanded us back home.
Departing our camp site around noon we set out with the goal of halting for any road side stop, little town or beautiful site we saw along the way!

Our first stop found us pulling off the highway by the lure of a sign declaring "waterfall". A short hike later and we were amongst the jagged land so dominant in Ontario and hum of a quickly moving waterfall smoothing the edges out as it raced to the bottom.
Admission - FREE
Carbon Foot Print - Zero!

And from there we pulled over for...

A family of cows sitting in a hole,


A countryside view plucked from a movie, and roadside wild blueberries, freshly picked strawberries and snap peas!

This weekend we are stay-cationing in our great city, which will bring movies at the local indie theater, breakfast to the tune of bluegrass music and Shakespeare under the moon.

Happy Friday.