TANIA MILLEN ................ WRITER. RIDER. Adventurer.
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      • Go Horse Camping
      • The Joys of Horse Packing
      • Pack em Up, Ride em Out
      • Rockin' Whitewater
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    • 2018 Trips
    • 2016 - 2017 Trips >
      • 2017 Trans Canada Trail
      • 2017 Waterton 2
      • 2017 Writing-on-Stone
      • 2016 Crossing the Rockies
      • 2016 Brazeau 3
      • 2016 Badger Pass 3
      • 2016 Waterton 1
    • 2013 - 2015 Trips >
      • 2015 Barkerville
      • 2015 Badger Pass 2
      • 2014 Spatsizi 3
      • 2013 Cypress Hills & Grasslands
      • 2013 Kakwa
      • 2013 Spatsizi 2
    • 2010 - 2012 Trips >
      • 2012 Brazeau 1
      • 2012 Best of Banff
      • 2012 Pobokton Brazeau Nigel
      • 2012 Spatsizi 1
      • 2011 Willmore
      • 2011 Twintree Lake
      • 2011 Jasper & Willmore Solo
      • 2011 Mt Assiniboine
      • 2010 Jasper & Mt Robson
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Who am I?

I'm a writer, rider and lifelong adventurer. My books will inspire you to get out and explore our world.
For more, read on.
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I live by a dream-induced question from a too-young-dead friend, 
'If not now, then when?'
​And the knowledge that 'some day', is not a day of the week.
 
I'm happiest in wild places in any weather. Although sun is nice. With friends, horses and chocolate.
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I can't be a spectator. Why watch when you can be part of the action? 

And recommend following (almost) every opportunity that comes along. You never know where it may lead...

 

But I've been advised by friends that, 
'She who does the most doesn't live the longest.' 
​​So just. chill. out.


​If success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.  Anna Quindlen

I was born in our nation's capital (geography quiz) to an engineering father, botanist mother and older sister. A brother came along a bit later, ensuring that I became the attention-seeking middle child.
 
Family themes included environmentalism, mountains, sailing, wild places, home-grown veggies, volunteering, and travel. Fortunately the folks were organic gardeners and avid environmentalists, reducing the possibility that I would become the creator of GMOs for Monsanto. Along the way I became completely derailed by horses (see Rider).

In between horses, I flew planes and paragliders, climbed rock and ice, won bodybuilding competitions, skied mountains, designed and built a house after renovating too many, lived and worked legally in England and Australia, lived and worked under-the-table in the US (does that make me a former illegal alien?), became an environmental scientist, spent 14 years remediating contaminated sites internationally (including stints at the highly secretive Pine Gap intelligence facility and a much more welcoming Canadian Embassy), trained as a professional chocolatier, got trained by my dog, unintentionally retired, and wrote a bunch of words that people seem to like reading. Some of that, I'm still doing (see Books and Freelance Articles).
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  • Writer
    • Books >
      • Go Horse Camping
      • The Joys of Horse Packing
      • Pack em Up, Ride em Out
      • Rockin' Whitewater
    • Freelance Articles
    • Services
    • Funding Dreams
  • Rider
    • 2018 Trips
    • 2016 - 2017 Trips >
      • 2017 Trans Canada Trail
      • 2017 Waterton 2
      • 2017 Writing-on-Stone
      • 2016 Crossing the Rockies
      • 2016 Brazeau 3
      • 2016 Badger Pass 3
      • 2016 Waterton 1
    • 2013 - 2015 Trips >
      • 2015 Barkerville
      • 2015 Badger Pass 2
      • 2014 Spatsizi 3
      • 2013 Cypress Hills & Grasslands
      • 2013 Kakwa
      • 2013 Spatsizi 2
    • 2010 - 2012 Trips >
      • 2012 Brazeau 1
      • 2012 Best of Banff
      • 2012 Pobokton Brazeau Nigel
      • 2012 Spatsizi 1
      • 2011 Willmore
      • 2011 Twintree Lake
      • 2011 Jasper & Willmore Solo
      • 2011 Mt Assiniboine
      • 2010 Jasper & Mt Robson
  • Connect