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Category: Ancestor Trail

Looping Back to Ontario

By lizjansen Posted on September 26, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail Tagged with adventure travel, travel

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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10 Gifts for Healing

By lizjansen Posted on September 12, 2014 Posted in Ancestor Trail, Liz's Stories

by Liz Jansen Two weeks and two days ago, while riding through rural Alberta on a lovely late summer day, my plans changed. I was headed for Blackfoot Crossing and Namaka, the farming community where my dad spent most of …

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Change in Plans

By lizjansen Posted on September 3, 2014 Posted in Ancestor Trail

My office view for six days—the majestic Rocky Mountains—from a hospital bed in Calgary. A change in plans. I know that there are two plans for each day: my plan and Spirit’s plan. Sometimes they match; sometimes they don’t. This …

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7 Challenges of Life on the Road

By lizjansen Posted on August 22, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail Tagged with adventure, travel

With two and a half weeks on the road, I’m still getting my road legs under me. Already I’ve met wonderful people, had amazing experiences, and taken new roads through exceptional beauty. Still it’s a period of big adjustment. These …

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Black Hills to Medicine Mountain

By lizjansen Posted on August 18, 2014 Posted in Ancestor Trail, Liz's Stories Tagged with travel

by Liz Jansen Yesterday marked the end of my visit with author Ed McGaa, (Eagle Man), author of multiple books on Native Spirituality and Earth Wisdom. Introduced to his book Nature’s Way earlier this year, I knew immediately that I …

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From Crazy Horse

By lizjansen Posted on August 15, 2014 Posted in Ancestor Trail Tagged with travel

by Liz Jansen This week my motorcycle has taken me from the wilds of Northwestern Ontario to the Black Hills of South Dakota. What a ride! An old-fashioned country jamboree capped off my visit with friends in Fort Frances. The …

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Fort Frances

By lizjansen Posted on August 11, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail Tagged with travel

by Liz Jansen Fort Frances got on my itinerary “on the way” to South America because I wanted to visit friends here, and explore the area further. It’s a small town of 8,000, about 350 kilometers west of Thunder Bay, …

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Getting on the Road—The First Week

By lizjansen Posted on August 8, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail Tagged with adventure, travel

Moving out of the driveway and getting on the road wasn’t so bad after all. Everything that had to be done was done, things that needed to be stored were packed away, Measha was at her vacation home, and my …

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Setting Free the Past to Open the Future

By lizjansen Posted on July 14, 2014 Posted in Adventure, Ancestor Trail, Personal Growth Tagged with courage, freedom

by Liz Jansen I met Abigail twenty-two years ago at an SPCA foster home in rural Ontario. My husband and I were looking for our little Mickey who had disappeared and there she was, a little tortoiseshell kitten sharing a …

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One More Month

By lizjansen Posted on July 4, 2014 Posted in Ancestor Trail Tagged with adventure, travel

by Liz Jansen Exactly one more month to go, until I pull out of my driveway, intending not to return for an indefinite period of time. I’ll be traveling to places unknown, both literally and metaphorically. While there are always last minute …

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