{"id":9333,"date":"2026-06-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:20:39","slug":"nopex-15-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/nopex-15-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"NOPEX | 15 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always fun to revisit trips on anniversaries. Last year, I posted about the ten-year anniversary<\/a> of my epic three-week trip to Europe to participate in the 200th Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo. And I was recently thinking about the last time I did a big trip, and after someone favourited an old image from my NOPEX trip back in 2011, I realised that this year marked the 15th anniversary of that trip. So, for a bit of context, NOPEX, or “Northern Ontario Products Exposition,” was a week-long car-camping trip through Northern Ontario with my good friend James. The groundwork had been laid with a pair of trips in 2009<\/a> and 2010<\/a>, or MAYPEX, because they took place over the May long weekend. Now I had always planned for the NOPEX trip to be a larger group, but that never materialised. But on 16 July 2011, James and I loaded my car and drove from Oakville to North Bay. Sadly, I didn’t collect many images on that trip because I was mainly driving, but we did make one stop north of Orillia at Webbers, an iconic burger stand, because tradition. We made camp just outside of North Bay and met up with a fellow PYPSer (both James and I were alumni at that point). So it was really the following day that the journey began.<\/p>\n

One thing to note, I’m working on this post strictly from memory and the visual record that both James and I captured. Thankfully, there’s enough on that record to figure out what happened, where we went, and what we did. It may not be entirely accurate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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