| Fall is one of the most beautiful seasons
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| | popular spot for vacation homes and the
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| in Ontario when forests light up in hues
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| | entire Kawartha area boasts thousands of
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| of yellow, orange and red. It's the
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| | cottages, camps and resorts, from simple
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| perfect time for drives in the
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| | house-keeping cottages to luxury resorts
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| countryside, to visit small villages,
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| | and conference centres.Of course fall is
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| check out farmer's markets, attend
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| | harvest time as well, Halloween is
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| country fairs. We've had a long hot
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| | approaching too, and one of the big
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| summer this year, even as I write this we
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| | autumn pastimes in cottage country seems
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| are expecting temperatures 10 degrees
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| | to be the creation of all forms of
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| Celsius above average. As a result the
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| | scarecrows. They were all over the place,
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| fall colour season is a little delayed,
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| | in front of private homes, bed &
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| but that did not change the fact that it
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| | breakfasts, schools, community centres,
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| was time for a country driving
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| | churches, even on bridges, and I started
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| tour.During the Servas conference in
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| | snapping away with my camera to document
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| Vancouver I made a great connection, I
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| | this rural creativity. My favourite
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| met a fellow Ontarian, a lady in her 50s
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| | scarecrow encounters included a wedding
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| by the name of Julie who lives north of
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| | scene, "breakfast in bed" in front of a
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| Peterborough in Ontario's Lake Country.
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| | B&B, and some "scarecrow hoodlums"
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| And as is the Servas tradition, she
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| | climbing the fence of a baseball
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| generously offered her hospitality and
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| | diamond.After saying goodbye to Julie and
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| invited me to come up and visit her on
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| | thanking her for her great hospitality, I
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| Buckhorn Lake. I left on Saturday at
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| | decided to do a little loop around
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| around 4 pm and although I got lost a
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| | Buckhorn Lake and I checked out the
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| couple of times, barely two hours later I
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| | village of Burleigh Falls. I got out of
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| arrived at her beautiful house on
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| | the car and walked down on the flat rocks
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| Buckhorn Lake.We spent a fabulous evening
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| | beside the river which descends in
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| chatting and cooking a meal together that
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| | cascades into Stoney Lake. Burleigh Falls
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| was so delicious that I packed in two big
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| | is a cute little hamlet located at the
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| servings. We talked about many topics and
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| | confluence of Lovesick Lake and Stoney
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| touched on the transitions of life, who
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| | Lake, and has a few restaurants and
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| we really are when you strip away job
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| | variety of other accommotions.One thing I
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| titles, material possessions, our
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| | did not realize is that Stoney Lake is a
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| affiliations with our marriage partners -
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| | local scuba diving spot. As I walked past
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| what is really left at the end of the
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| | the cascades and arrived at a little
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| day. It was a really interesting
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| | clearing, I saw a scuba diver in full
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| discussion, I always enjoy conversing
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| | gear coming out of the water. He
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| with people who have more life experience
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| | explained to me that there were problably
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| than I do.Not surprisingly, Julie is a
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| | about 20 or so divers in the lake, and
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| very interesting individual, she is a
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| | that they explore the rocky lake bottom
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| "diversity expert" and teaches
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| | which apparently also includes a deep
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| organizations how to deal effectively
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| | trench.From Burleigh Falls I continue my
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| with a multi-cultural workforce. She also
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| | path south and stopped at Youngs Point,
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| participates in a variety of volunteer
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| | which houses one of the locks of the
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| organizations (including Servas), plays
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| | Trent-Severn Waterway System. This little
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| tennis and volleyball, goes for long
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| | town marks the start of the Canadian
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| hikes, canoes, plays the piano, sings in
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| | Shield and was settled in 1825. The
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| a choir, to name just a few of her
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| | original lock here was built in the early
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| activities. I asked her if she ever gets
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| | 1870's. I stopped at the Lockside Trading
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| lonely in the tranquility of Lake
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| | Company, which offers cottage country
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| Country, after having lived most of her
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| | apparel, home furnishings, a variety of
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| life in the metropolitan hub of Toronto.
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| | souvenirs and home decorating items, as
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| The answer was a definitive no, and once
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| | well as some of the famous Kawartha Dairy
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| I heard of all her activities I realized
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| | icecream, which of course I had to
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| that with such an active social calendar
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| | taste.Youngs Point was my last stop on my
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| it would be very difficult to feel lonely
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| | way home, although I drove through a
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| or get bored.What's always great about a
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| | series of cute villages including
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| personal visit is connecting with a local
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| | Lakefield, Bridgenorth and Port Perry. I
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| expert, who really knows the area. Julie
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| | thoroughly enjoyed the drive through the
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| took me on a little driving tour of her
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| | rolling hills of this agricultural land
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| neck of the woods (literally) and showed
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| | northeast of Toronto. The feeling was
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| me some of her favourite spots, which
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| | apparently shared by a myriad of other
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| include Fothergill Island, the Gannon
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| | travellers, some pulling boats on
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| Narrows Conservation Area and the country
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| | trailers, others riding on their
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| drive to the village of Buckhorn.The
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| | motorcycles. All in all, it was a perfect
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| Kawartha area is full of lakes, many of
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| | early fall day and an ideal occasion to
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| which are connected and form part of the
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| | check out Toronto's backcountry.Susanne
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| Trent-Severn Waterway System that
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| | Pacher is the publisher of a website
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| connects Lake Ontario with Georgian Bay,
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| | called Travel and Transitions( Travel and
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| part of Lake Huron, over a distance of
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| | Transitions deals with unconventional
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| 387 km through a serious of lift locks.
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| | travel and is chock full of advice, tips,
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| The Kawarthas are one of the three main
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| | real life travel experiences, interviews
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| popular getaway areas for Ontario which
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| | with travellers and travel experts,
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| include Muskoka, the Haliburton
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| | insights and reflections, cross-cultural
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| Highlands, and the Kawarthas. During our
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| | issues, contests and many other features.
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| drive Julie pointed out one of the
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| | You will also find stories about life and
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| landlocked lakes that is not connected to
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| | the transitions that we face as we go
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| the lock system, Sandy Lake, which has a
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| | through our own personal life-long
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| bottom of sand and clay, resulting in an
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| | journeys.Submit your own travel stories
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| often turqouise appearance, somewhat
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| reminiscent of famous Lake Louise in
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| | have a chance to win an amazing adventure
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| Western Canada. Sandy Lake is a very
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