The trip was a pilgrimage back to my adventurous younger self who isn’t extinct, just out of practice
In recent years, I’ve been lucky to answer the call, for the better part of a week. I answer it the way I learned as a child, the way my dad taught me. Starting when I was 10 years old, Dad loaded his canoe with packs, my sister and me, and we paddled into Algonquin Park’s interior.
My dad and sister started taking my eldest daughter on their annual Algonquin canoe trip. My sister’s kids had been canoe tripping for a few years by then. My sister, a teacher, posts her itemized Google doc and starts cooking, then dehydrating meals. Dad is a true woodsman; he can have a rope strung for the bear bag, a tarp over the kitchen and a pile of dry firewood chopped before we even have our tent poles out.
A string of doubts about the summer canoe trip cascaded through my mind. Could I drive my daughters, alone, to Algonquin’s remote north boundary to meet my dad and stepmom? Could I steer the canoe? Could II had driven across Canada, alone, in my twenties, well before Google maps. I was pretty sure I could stern if we kept to smaller lakes that were less likely to become windswept. But I feared carrying a canoe like I had feared childbirth.
On our departure day, my husband checked the ropes holding the canoe on the car and waved us off. I told myself that wasn’t a worried look in his eyes.I unloaded the canoe from my tall SUV using the ‘short person’ method my brother-in-law taught me and set it down on the lakeshore without a scratch. We loaded in our packs, our pup, ourselves and pushed off on a calm, late-August day.
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