{"id":6707,"date":"2018-02-05T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2019-07-01T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:04:38","slug":"2018-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/2018-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Plans for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has a funny way of making things you write on blogs meaningless over a period of time. Take my post from last year &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/hello-port-stanley\/\">Hello Port Stanley<\/a>&#8220;; I stated that I would be retired by July.\u00a0 Well, things didn&#8217;t play out that way, and just before Christmas, I agreed to take a new role in the company rather than retiring. The upside is that I will do the role from our place in Port Stanley rather than having to move out west. The downside is that I&#8217;m back to a normal set of holidays.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, here are the trips I&#8217;m planning on making in 2018. You can be assured that all trips will be documented in photos and video.<\/p>\n<h4>Canoeing Trip: Quetico Provincial Park<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Almost three decades ago, I and a group of work colleagues would do long-weekend canoe trips together. We covered a fair number of the canoe routes in both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontarioparks.com\/park\/algonquin\">Algonquin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontarioparks.com\/park\/killarney\">Killarney<\/a> Provincial Parks; the lead photo is from one of our trips to Killarney. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Now in 2018, a few of the gang are starting to retire and, to celebrate, are planning a bigger canoeing trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontarioparks.com\/park\/quetico\">Quetico<\/a> Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario. The plan is to spend about 7 days canoeing; add in the travel time to get to Quetico and this looks to be a two-week trip.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It will be good to get back to canoeing; the last trip I did a canoe trip of any length was in 2010 when my step-brother Pat, his nephew Ryan and I did a short trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/albums\/72157624352660021\">Killarney<\/a>\u00a0on Johnnie and Bell Lakes.<\/p>\n<h4>Bike Tour Trip: Brantford to Port Stanley<\/h4>\n<p>Although we talked about for 2017, my stepson-in-law, Konrad and I want to do a short bike touring between their place in Brantford and our place in Port Stanley. It would be a two-day-one-night trip, camping at either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontarioparks.com\/park\/longpoint\">Long Point<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontarioparks.com\/park\/turkeypoint\">Turkey Point<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has a funny way of making things you write on blogs meaningless over a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/blog\/2018-plans\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventure Plans for 2018<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures","category-news","post_format-post-format-image","excerpt","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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