I come from a family of walkers. My dad used to be a runner and ran a few marathons before his heart condition, and my mom just liked walking. They taught my sister and I to enjoy it from a young age too, I remember being very young and going to Niagara Falls for a few days during the March Break and walking from our hotel to Clifton Hill and back again nearly every day of our trip, and according to google maps that’s a nearly half hour walk. In December, my sister and I surprised our dad with a day trip to the ROM and we all took the GO Bus down to Toronto and then walked from Union Station to the museum which was a forty minute walk. When I told people that we had walked they were shocked by it, reminding us that there was a subway stop right there that we could have taken instead, but why pay when the walk isn’t really that far? Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 