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Theme: Travel outdoors & Adventure

The Achnasheen Desolation

Murdo MacLeod

1982

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run. When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun. Long before the white man and long before the wheel. When the green dark forest was too silent to be real

These are the opening lines of Gordon Lightfoots Canadian Railroad Trilogy, a song nobody remembers but which takes me straight to my day like this. ... (continues)

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