It has become kind of a tradition. Each year, a group of kayaking and canoeing enthusiasts, mostly from central Pennsylvania, meet down in Florida to paddle segments of some very scenic, interesting rivers. We generally use a state park in one part of Florida as a "base camp" for a week and explore six different rivers near that park. Then we move to another part of Florida and do the same thing in that area. Our usual pattern is to visit three regions in Florida for a week each, for a total of three weeks of Florida rivers. People join our group for as much or as little time as they like In early March of this year, about 16 paddlers from Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Ontario traveled to the Hillsborough River State Park, near Tampa, Florida. We used this beautiful park as our base camp for our first week of Florida rivers. We met up with our trip leader, Lori, and about 15 paddlers from Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, a...
The Groto; Bruce Peninsula National Park of Canada Hi, and thanks for checking out this blog! It is supposed to be mainly a photo blog, showing beautiful places that I've visited in North America. If you've landed here hoping for pictures and a bit of my back story, well, then stick around; that's what this post is all about. I'll tell you a little bit about me, something about my travels and travel plans, a bit about the rig and gear I use to travel with, and a few of the things I've learned about solo adventure travel. It should help you figure out how to use the rest of this blog as well. So, I'm a single retired guy who spends 8 to 9 months per year living out of my van, traveling mostly in Canada and the USA where I go to amazing places and do fun stuff while I'm there. Amazing places to me mostly involve nature: Rivers and lakes, waterfalls, rocks, trees, mou...