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THE FIRST VACATION that my husband and I took together was a five-day canoe trip in Algonquin Provincial Park. It was September 2008, about eight months after we first met. We had both done quite a bit of canoe-tripping in our teens and 20s, a decade (or more) previous, although neither of us had been out much since.
Our first leg of