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Category: Ancestor Trail

The Bruce Trail: Teacher for the Times

By lizjansen Posted on December 18, 2020 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Liz's Stories 6 Comments

When the student is ready, the teacher appears. The Bruce Trail has become my teacher for the times we’re living! I spot the sign with white blazes marking an access point where I’ll continue my Bruce Trail trek. Peace envelopes …

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Taking the Backward Step to Move Forward in 2020

By lizjansen Posted on January 24, 2020 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Personal Growth, Power of Story 18 Comments
Taking the Backward Step to Move Forward in 2020

When someone calls our name, we turn in their direction. We look back, not ahead to see who’s calling and what they want. The same thing applies to an inner calling, that yearning that doesn’t go away. Looking ahead for …

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Time to Hibernate: Home and Taking a Break

By lizjansen Posted on October 18, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail 12 Comments
Time to Hibernate: Home and Taking a Break

For the past four nights I’ve slept in my own bed, yet keep waking up wondering where I am. It’s odd this happens now, but never during the past eleven weeks of camping, staying with friends, and some motelling! In …

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Motorcycles, Mennonites, and Métis…and More

By lizjansen Posted on October 4, 2019 Posted in Ancestor Trail No Comments
Motorcycles, Mennonites, and Métis…and More

Winter winds pushed me east towards Winnipeg and my next stop on the Long Road Home moto-book tour. I anticipated a cosmopolitan* audience at McNally Robinson Books—different from the mainly motorcycle crowd I’d met with during the first two-thirds of …

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The Stories We Carry: Unlocking and Liberating The Message

By lizjansen Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Ancestors, Culture, Personal Growth 4 Comments

One of the greatest joys during this Long Road Home moto-book tour has come not from sharing my story, but from listening to the stories of others. We’ve all got them and we share universal themes. They’re passed down through …

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Family and Fate: Honoring the Reimer Ancestors

By lizjansen Posted on August 30, 2019 Posted in Ancestor Trail, Power of Story 4 Comments
Family and Fate: Honoring the Reimer Ancestors

August 27 went as planned with a group of Reimer cousins meeting for lunch. Within moments of the shutter snapping for the après-lunch photo, everything changed. I’m in Vancouver on the Long Road Home Moto-Book Tour. The nearby city of …

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Reality of the Road: The Landscape of Travel

By lizjansen Posted on August 10, 2019 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail 2 Comments
Reality of the Road: The Landscape of Travel

Even I get caught up in the romantic notion of riding a motorcycle across the open landscape under sunny blue skies with the wind in my face. The reality of the road brings me back to earth. Every time. Last …

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The Long Road Home Tour and Another Crossing

By lizjansen Posted on August 2, 2019 Posted in Ancestor Trail No Comments
The Long Road Home Tour and Another Crossing

It’s a familiar feeling – leaving the port of Tobermory for Manitoulin Island on the Chi Cheemaun (Big Canoe), headed for parts unknown. It wasn’t my maiden voyage but it imight have been. Yesterday, the sailing marked the beginning of …

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Going Carless

By lizjansen Posted on October 3, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail 16 Comments

by Liz Jansen Winter in small-town Ontario isn’t typically the time to experiment with going carless. Not when motorcycle transportation is generally out of the question for at least a few months. But I’ve decided to try it. Now that …

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Looping Back to Ontario

By lizjansen Posted on September 26, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail 6 Comments Tagged with , adventure traveltravel

by Liz Jansen This week I arrived back in Orangeville, Ontario, after a four-day road trip across much of Canada, from Calgary, Alberta. I’ve settled into temporary quarters in a cozy cabin while I search for somewhere to overwinter and heal. …

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