One of my strange hobbies is walking to or from airports. In the ideal case it is walking between the airport and the place I am sleeping. I flew into YOW in December 2019 and had the opportunity to take a 13km walk.
Itinerary
From YOW, out on Paul Benoit Driveway past the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, to Riverside Dr, meeting the Rideau River at Mooney’s Bay and “civilization” at Billings Bridge, then across the Rideau on Bank through the Glebe and Centretown to Albert St and my destination.
Getting to YOW
This would be an all-transit day. I took Grand River Transit to the Kitchener station and then the GO train to Weston and the UP Express to Pearson.
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This used to be much harder than is. Credit to Metrolinx for upgrading the frequency of connections from Kitchener to Toronto, if not the speed. I wrote about this in 2008 and 2019.