I thought I’d write an introductory blog for anyone following this to get some perspective on what our plans are, and to check that this ‘blog’ format actually works. I imagine that most people reading this blog will be people who came to our wedding 18 months ago, and many of you we have not yet been able to meet up and catch up with since our wedding. To all of you, we’d much prefer to be talking face to face, but hopefully this blog will act as a one-way update until we meet again and can catch up.
A few months ago we decided to spend a couple of months travelling from Mexico to Canada. It’s something we’ve both wanted to do for a long time and it seemed like we were at a point in our lives where we could do it. We’re combining WWOOFing (working on farms for bed and board) with public transport and hiring vehicles to travel firstly to southern France with free accommodation (with my Dad and Sue) then to Los Angeles, an ecological restoration project near Ramona, crossing the Mexican border and travelling to Guerrero Negro to see some grey whales, back up to LA to pick up a camper van and go around California and then driving up the coast to Seattle, getting a ferry to Vancouver Island, travelling up Vancouver Island and getting the ferry from the tip (Port Hardy) up the NW coast of British Colombia to Prince Rupert and getting the train back down towards Jasper in the Rockies. There we’ll meet up with Sarah’s aunt and uncle (who live in Edmonton) and stay with them for a couple of weeks before returning to the UK. We’re leaving on the 3rd of January and we’re back on the 12th of March.
I’m aware that we’re very privileged to be able to do this. We’re certainly going to pay for it when we come back, in lost time, lost savings and lost earnings. Nevertheless we’ve decided to do it, because right now we can, and we may not be able to in the near future. This is something we both want to do, and we may never have a chance to do it again in this way. We both have things we want to do next in our lives and a shake up is usually good before a new start.
I’d like to share what we’ve been up to in this blog, largely as a way of letting you all know what we’re doing and so that we’re up to date when we next meet, but also as a diary. I’ve never been good at keeping diaries, so hopefully this format will function as a way of forcing me to think of and write down interesting things as they happen. There may only be five posts, or there may be 50 – let’s see what happens. The theme will be ‘interesting enough things to mention in the blog’.
JH Woodcarving 