Hi y'all !

I'm a little surprised...not even one reply to my post above!  No worries tho.
It occurred to me after that it might seem a little unusual, for a new first-post!
The canoe-trip I'm planning will be in Sept., after the mid-summer high-season ends.
After six years since my last solo trip in the Park, that seems near to me!  This trip, however, won't be a solo...

Sean  

Maybe there aren't a lot of poetry lovers or else they're all out camping?

After a few reads however, I feel the sentiment.

Having just returned from three nights with my daughter it's pretty much all I can think about...I now realize that 4 days in Algonquin is better than most other vacations I take...Although the work is hard and requires attention (food, shelter, transit etc) there is something about it that demands my attention fully. This makes everything back home seem small and unimportant. And the fact that I am completely unreachable underlines all this.

Thanks for your words!

Quite true!!

Just pitched the last of my three tents...airing them out after six years in the bag.
My 'Peasant Hut' rises again!!  {...and looks like it's aching to be back in the Park!!)
...Arghhh...a month to wait--don't know how I'll endure that!  

Ahem...pardon me for this, but...

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Just made my res and rcv'd email conf from OP...5-nights in AP, Sept.10-15...

OH-YEAHHHH!!!      

DW where was the Sasquatch post?  I'd be in on that for sure!  

Sean, great poem!  Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum

Stew  I've yearned to return to AP for ages! Its been so long since my last trip and just 'un-dispersing' my scattered gear will be a monumental task--but a totally enjoyable one!

(DW)  I think that Sasquatch are myth and legend--but ya never know!  New species get discovered from time-to-time, mostly in the oceans though, it seems.  Does Sasquatch swim?!!  

Steve E  Thanks Steve!  I wrote that only recently, in the course of something entirely unrelated to AP.  It is, however, both a connection to my last trip six years ago in 2011 and a bridge to my upcoming trip--
10 days from now!!!

Counting the sheep jumping the sleeps!!! 

Of the several solo canoe trips I've done, the last one, in 2011 in AP was the best--so far!  Each trip was great, even thru the hardest snags. But leaving-day has always been a bit of a 'downer'.
It's on the paddle back that the feeling of ''renew'' happens for me...a sense of ''yeah, I can handle it--whatever happens''. That, and too, knowing that I know the way back!