Into Beautiful Toronto

Today's walk was from Royal York Road along the lake to Bathurst Street in perfect cool, sunny weather. I've never travelled this route before, even though I've lived in or near the city most of my life. New lands have been added to the shoreline, a butterfly refuge established, many high end high-rise condos have gone up, beautiful pedestrian bridges have been installed over Etobicoke Creek and the Humber River. Peeking through the trees we could see the dome of the flower building and the bandshell at the CNE. A number of sail boats were enjoying the light winds, and for the first time I saw an amphibious bus motoring along a lagoon at Ontario Place. For those of you reading this blog from Australia, just google some of the places above to get more info and photos.

We had three guests with us for today's walk. Edith, Marilyn and Keith are all avid walkers - - it must have been a pain for them to travel at my somewhat slow pace - - but we spent much of the time hearing about their many walking experiences. And, of course, they heard about ours.

Sometimes it's hard to believe that we've walked from southern Pennsyvania to Toronto! And with only a bit more than four days on the road, we'll be home. Saturday we rest. Sunday my daughter and I are walking from downtown Toronto to Kew Beach.

Our hosts for the past three days were Donna and Steve McCorquodale whose home in Etobicoke is less than a mile from our route - - so convenient.

For those of you recently reading this blog, our walk is for charity. See the first entry, mid March, for the original news release and go to www.sunnybrookfoundation.ca click Events, click Trail to donate.