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I Started White Water Rafting at 43. At 56, I’m Still Getting in the Boat.

by Candace Sampson

The first time I went white water rafting I was 43. If you had told me then that I would still be doing it at 56, and voluntarily, I would have laughed in your face and gone back to my sangria. But here we are. It turns out white water rafting for beginners in Ontario …

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A Vacation Isn’t a Place You Go

by Candace Sampson

I don’t think I’m going to surprise anyone by stating that the world is feeling smaller. For the first time in modern history, instead of continued expansion of where we can go, we’re looking at a contraction. Our choices are being limited either by financial constraints or by threats to our physical safety. With oil …

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Can Travel Heal a Broken Heart? What I Found Out Trip by Trip

by Candace Sampson

Can travel heal a broken heart? I spent the better part of a year trying to find out. Not deliberately. I didn’t book a series of trips as a therapeutic exercise or decide that movement was the answer to the disintegration of a 20 year marriage. It was more accidental than that. The trips were …

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Rocky Mountaineer

Is Rocky Mountaineer Worth It? I Went at the Worst Possible Time and Here’s What I Found Out

by Candace Sampson

Is Rocky Mountaineer worth it? WelI, I can tell you that I have over 800 photos from three days on the Rocky Mountaineer and not one of them does it justice. Partly because it is genuinely impossible to photograph. The Canadian Rockies move past the glass dome in a way that makes your camera feel …

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