TRAVEL
T H E W E S T // W O R L D W I D E // W E E K E N D G E T AWA Y S // N E I G H B O U R H O O D S // R O A D T R I P S
Have Tilley, Will Travel The writer outfitted himself—floppy hat and all—for function, not so much for style.
Walk, Don’t Run
What is a trip? Writer Tyee Bridge skips the airport and eschews the train station in favour of lacing up a pair of old runners and setting out to walk the Trans Canada Trail that begins in his own backyard. illustrations by AMANDA SIEGMANN
our Trans Canada Trail walk began near Douglas Coupland’s pixelated Digital Orca sculpture in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour. I’ve always found it mesmerizing and I wanted to linger for a few minutes, but I felt the clock ticking. We were going to put in over 30 kilometres that day, and we were behind schedule. It was a perfect morning in late May. Cool but cloudless, the sun already well launched into pale blue sky. The kind of
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