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Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.