About Ontario Wanderer / Dean Gugler  

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From my often unused Blog:

I have wandered, walked, run, backpacked, cycled, and skied several thousands of kilometres in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the South Pacific. I have also canoed through many lakes and rivers. I have wandered as far north as the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories of Canada and as far south as the South Island in New Zealand. I have wandered to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and to the tops of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Ben Nevis in Scotland, Mount Washington in New Hampshire, and many other mountains in the Appalachian chain. I have also had the joy of skiing and hiking in the Italian Dolomites during the last few years.

My longest walk was a 700 kilometre (435 mile) backpacking summer on the Appalachian Trail. My most challenging canoe trip was through most of the length of the Churchill River in Labrador.

Regardless of my foreign wanderings many of my most pleasurable wanderings have been within 10 km (6 miles) of wherever I happen to be living.

Since I retired from summer camp work, YMCA work, Child Care and Assessment, and being an elementary school teacher, I have taken up sculpture and painting. I was "school photographer" for years in various schools so I started learning about camera work years ago but Flickr contacts have added much to my enjoyment and learning about photography. I hope that I have many more years of learning to go. Oh yes, I have been taking classes in school now every year for more than 50 years. There is so much to learn.

In words from the character Samuel Hamilton in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, "I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it."