VIDEO: Woman completes five-year trek across the Trans Canada Trail in Victoria
Melanie Vogel removes her socks and shoes so she can step in the water of the third ocean she has reached on her 5-year journey. Melanie Vogel with her dog, Malo, on the beach in Victoria.
The solo adventurer marked the end of a five-year trek from Cape Spear, N.L. to Point Zero in Victoria, on Saturday . “People would just constantly invite me in. I was no stranger to them, so it seemed. So I started talking about that and then people would come back to me and say ‘you know what, you kind of reinstated my faith for humanity again, because there is all this bad news and here is your story about the kindness of people across Canada.’”
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