Tag: Adventure travel

Things to think about before taking a volunteer vacation

You can volunteer for just about anything, from building houses to helping study animals to going on archaeological digs

This is part 23 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

Young’s General Store is there in all its rustic glory, greeting visitors to this northern Ontario town – even if its moose is in storage

This is part 19 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

“We need a plan to fully reopen the border so our businesses can survive”

This is part 18 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CYCLING ACROSS CANADA: Winnipeg has taken a shine to urban cycling

This is part 17 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

Members offer a place for touring cyclists to pitch their tents and grab a shower. In exchange: an evening of conversation

This is part 15 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

The bees came at us like a fleet of enemy fighter planes. ‘They started just hitting me. It was kind of like a cloud of bees’

This is part 14 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

‘I threw down my bike and ran over to her. She was lying still on the pavement, entangled in her bike’

This is part 9 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

By the door is an original painting by renowned Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau, one of dozens of pieces in Wilking’s collection

This is part 8 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

Learn to take it one pedal stroke at a time. And even though that hill can look intimidating, just get into the zone and take it slow

This is part 6 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

Transport trucks, cars and four-by-fours roared by us, some so close we were showered in road spray and rocked by the wind gusts