Mike Strobel (Toronto Sun) writes:
Tagalong Paul is off to see Canada.
Or at least hear, smell, taste and touch it.
Tagalong Paul Stewart is blind as a bat.
'I need a change of scenery,' he tells me.
Why bother? I ask him.
Don't the Rockies, the prairies, the oceans and Dundas St. W. look pretty much the same to a blind guy?
'I can see it, Mike,' he says. 'In my own way.
'I'll see it when I meet people, when I spend a little time in a new place. I can smell the ocean and the fresh air, I can hear the quiet.
'And I'll see it all through the dog's eyes.'
Peanut, a black lab cross, perks his ears. Paul usually calls him 'partner.'
Against a wall is Gerie, Paul's faithful guitar. There's not much cherry left in her wild cherry finish.
Tagalong Paul, Peanut and Gerie. Three amigos. Untold adventures await them.
'Travelling across Canada is my life's dream,' says Paul, 55. 'I wrote a song about it.'
Country song, of course, on his CD, On The Road of Life."
