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It has only been a little over a week since my last post, but it has been a busy few days.

1. Today I got my income tax done and submitted to Revenue Canada! 🙂
2. Yesterday I joined a senior’s group that sets up meetings in various places – this time it was a senior’s complex. It is free including coffee and snacks and this time – a free car wash certificate. You just have to register & get yourself there. The spot yesterday was within walking distance. I am already registered for the next meet up.
3. My main computer died a couple of days ago! I had my income tax almost done on it. Today I had to re download the Turbo Tax program and start over again after connecting the other computer that hadn’t been used in awhile. I am back at the pc again instead of using my phone to check in on the world. My fingers are just too big to comfortably write much on a phone.This pc is also quite old, so hopefully it will behave itself.

I was afraid that I had lost all the photos on my last walk, but luckily (since I was uploading on a pc that I hadn’t used in months), the automatically delete option was not checked and today I found all the photos still on the camera. 🙂

This walk was back to the Vedder River Rotary Trail that I have been walking in pieces for some time now. The plan this time was to walk from the bridge where I had been last time and follow the road/trail to the next bridge where I could cross the river and return on the opposite side of the river. The reason I thought that was the route was because of this sign.

Oh oh – this is the highway – there is no access to walk across the river on it! 😦 There is a trail going off to the right on the 2nd photo. That must be the trail, but I will have to walk back to the bridge where I can walk across, and then back back to this bridge on the opposite side of the river to follow it. For today though I will just walk back to where I parked my car at the other bridge and will come back here another day to try this again. Or – maybe I turn left after crossing the bridge and start my return walk.

Going back under the first bridge and there is my trusty little car waiting for me!

This trail is a little over 20 km long and at the rate I am going, it will take me over a year to finish. I am walking twice the actual distance because I start, walk as far as I can comfortably go and then walk back the same distance to get to my car. Of course there have been a few times where I missed part of the trail or got lost trying to figure out where I am supposed to go, and extra distances are added in. I expect that I will have walked about 50 km or more before I finish at the rate I am going. Good thing I am retired and have lots of time.

After examining the map a little closer, I don’t believe I will have to walk back to the highway bridge as the trail indicates it is a trail to Abbotsford. So, I should be able to turn left after I cross the bridge and will be heading back on the opposite side. I hope!!!