So, this fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants operation has finally looked at a couple maps. It actually doesn't look like I'm biking a very great distance. What I thought was going to take three weeks is probably only going to take ten days, if that. Well, it gives me something to think about. Probably, I'll have to go to Mexico.
On another note, as I embark on one trip, I start looking forward to the next. I want to do some paddling, and have been dreaming of Nahanni national park. It's the park made famous by Trudeau's beard. He grew the beard while on a canoe trip in the park and wore it back to parliament with him. It was a sensation.
I was doing a little research on the subject of Trudeau's canoe trips and found an essay written by him called "Exhaustion and Fulfillment: The Ascetic in a Canoe." I read the essay looking to be inspired on my upcoming trip, but what I found...well...
I'll quote the passage.
"Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature."
So, to summarize. I am a brute because I like the train, and I am also "basically" a bourgeois. A basically bourgeois brute.
[fact check: I don't really know if Trudeau grew his beard on his trip through Nahanni. That part about it being a 'sensation' might also not be factually correct.]
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