Day 76-82 (July 24th-30th) Do you know what the weirdest part about returning to a city you lived in years ago? Feeling kinda dazed and disoriented, like you’ve just woken up from a long and convoluted dream that may have been really important but you can’t quite remember it. It’s like those Pevensie kids from [...]

Whoops. Where has the time gone? Here I thought that I’d be all good and post regularly and then, BAM! Days and days (and DAYS) go by and I give you nothing. You have my deepest apologies, interweb. Apparently I get distracted easily. I’ll try to never let it ha-HEY! WHAT’S THAT SHINY THING IN [...]

I know all of you faithful readers have every event of my entire life (as thus far blogged) committed fondly to memory. So of course you remember that on August 8th, 2009, I made a comment about being one of four packed into a truck on a tour of Otavalo, Ecuador. Right? Well, two of [...]

Day 61-68 (Friday, July 9th – Friday, July 16th) Bev, I’ve been trying to take good pictures of every provincial border crossing. I swear I have! But sometimes (like when you’re crossing into Quebec at Hawkesbury), they just sneak up on you suddenly when you’re on a bridge and there’s nowhere to pull over. So [...]

When I was a kid I had this little red wagon. You know, the kind that every child has. Barely big enough to sit in, big black handle sticking out of the front. As I write this it occurs to me that it’s weird that the wagon was mine. I have two older sisters, and [...]

Day 57 (Mon, July 5th) Have I been complaining a lot about the heat? Or the better question may be, have I been complaining ENOUGH about the heat? For about 5 days straight it’s been highs of mid-30s (that’s Celsius folks, or mid 90s Fahrenheit). But then there is this little subsection that says “Feels [...]

Days 48-50 (Sat-Mon, June 26-28th) Day 50! 50 days of glorious, responsibility-free randomness. I love it. I really do. For all of you folks out there with things like “jobs” and “homes”, I highly recommend ditching it all and getting yourself a little camper van. Remember Jackie? The girl I met at the YMCA in [...]

It was Day 43 (Mon, June 21st) when I first noticed the smell. This was during my marathon drive to Detroit. The past few days had been freakin’ hot and muggy. I’d been in my van pretty much 24/7 for a few days: driving, sleeping, eating. One thing I was definitely not doing, either in [...]

Day 41 cont… (Sat, June 19th) My mom and step-sister had been planning a trip to Howell, Michigan to visit family for ages. For those that don’t know, this is a little town about 100 km west from Detroit. So when I was in Winnipeg, I thought, hey, I should drive down and meet them! [...]