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10 years ago, 12 hours in the life of a reenactor. We really are all quite mad!

A thread.

Dec. 18th, 8:00 p.m. on a plane in Atlanta, hoping for an ontime departure for Toronto!

I would have to land, clear customs, retrieve my vehicle and still drive an hour plus to Niagara On The Lake!

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Fort George had offered barracks space for the reenactors but wake up would be sometime around 2:00 a.m. and I knew it would be rude showing up around midnight stumbling around in the dark looking for a bunk!

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My solution? An off season rate at a neighbouring hotel. I was going to rough it! I arrived around midnight and asked for a 1:30 a.m. wake up call

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Not sure, I ever slept, met the lads in the parking lot a little after 2:00 a.m.

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We boarded school buses

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We had a nice, brisk march of 6 km or so!

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tom4141tom,
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We captured a fort

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We were treated to a breakfast

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This was either:

a) speeches
b) we burned shit down
c) we burned shit down because we had to listen to speeches

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I was back in my hotel room by 8:00 a.m.

Check out was noon, that bed did look inviting!

And this was all within 12 hours!

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