Walkers formerly known as wackie

If you’re up and out by 8 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, you may see a familiar group walking Point Roberts’ roads and trails. It won’t be the Wackie Walkers, though. After a request for input from members, the group has voted to rename itself the Point Roberts Walkers.

As with all things 2020, changes were felt in other ways, too. We miss meeting in people’s homes for coffee after the walk. We miss our Canadian friends from Tsawwassen, and we’re sorry not to see those from farther afield, including Bellingham and Lynden, who occasionally traveled back to Point Roberts, where they once resided.

But the Point Roberts Walkers are sustained by a smaller, local crowd who continue to walk and who maintain contact with those who can’t. And the year hasn’t passed without some new traditions, born of Covid-19.

Instead of our annual Winter Pot Luck and before the more stringent restrictions were passed, we had coffee in back yards, and wiener roasts – socially distanced of course – that harked back to a gentler, more simple time in our lives.

And this simplicity makes the Point Roberts Walkers easy to sustain – walk, talk, drink coffee. In 2021, we look forward to welcoming members old and new, when the world rights itself anew.

Contact info: margot@pointroberts.net