Alternate Routes is the name of Dom and Shayna’s blog, whereby they travel from one end of the country to another, bartering, begging or cajoling for their food and lodgings.
We are traveling across Canada exploring the topic of community. Bartering our skills and labour for accommodation, food and transportation costs, we will make our way from coast to coast, community by community.
Specifically, we will be visiting various type of intentional communities (any group of people that has come together with community as a central uniting purpose). Many of these communities are seeking alternatives to the environmental destruction and social decay perpetuated by mainstream society; some seek to provide a community environment of love and support to people of diverse mental and physical abilities; others just want a place to share ideas and resources with people of a similar perspective — religious, political or otherwise.
It’s a part of This Magazine’s Blog, which I follow through my Bloglines newsreader. I’ll be following this one as well, for now.