I moved to Napanee almost two years ago for the same reason I chose this new place we’ve just moved to - it was the apartment with the...

No, I won’t stop paying attention to the fires. I won’t stop paying attention to the floods, the droughts, the storms, the temperatures,...

Pioneer plants have already taken root on a lava flow from the 2007 eruption of Piton de la Fournaise. Image credit: MarySloA on Flickr...

I wrote this about a month ago and forgot to post it... The smoke has cleared, here, for now, so I’ve been puttering. Mostly,I struggle...

NB... there's no picture of either the game or the herbs because my storage is full... add fixing that to the ongoing whack-a-mole......

Hello… I stopped writing here because of technical difficulties… I can rarely even access this blog So I’ve moved… gypsies do that…...

Wishing each other a happy Earth Day sounds absolutely ludicrous considering few wish that truly enough to care whether the Earth herself...

How do you change the world? Start with the shirt on your back… because it’s become a monkey on your back… a flying monkey, at that The...

For the past several years, I’ve used the time between Winter Solstice and my mid-January birthday as a period of reflection, assessment,...

I can’t sleep. That’s not unusual, and there’s many reasons… tonight’s an interesting combination. I’m a human barometer, marked in...

Hello, This is the same Ann Cognito from previous epic (and could have been epic) adventures of trying to change the world. Before...

Aside from chasing deliveries out of wormholes, the past couple days have been very unbusy. I’m not used to that. I’ve been walking on...

Sadly, due to a serious deterioration in her health, Ann is no longer able to plan on sailing, or even living aboard, in the foreseeable...

In which the Expedition is scooting again, following Yonge St. from its source Date: August 26 to August 28, 2019 KOA Campground north of...

In which the Expeditioners dip their toes in Lake Superior Date: August 23, 2019 Dryden to Thunder Bay; 352 km ride Joan’s husband...

In which we hope the cold hitchhiker really did find the sleeping bag Date: August 12 2019 Prawda, Manitoba to Kenora, Ontario (100 km...

In which Ann almost makes it to the east side of Manitoba before intervention is needed again… Date: August 11, 2019 Wild Oaks Campground...

In which Ann crosses the longitudinal centre of Canada…no thanks to Google Maps Date: August 6 – 7, 2019 Town and Country Campground, on...

In which Ann couchsurfs Winnipeg...which is a strange adventure in itself Dates: mid July to August 4, 2019 Winnipeg I found a place...

In which the Expedition is dealt a serious setback Date: June 28 to mid July, 2019 Winnipeg Winnipeg was where I’d have to stop long...