After a weekend of farewell parties, we are now moved out of our house. It was a lot more work than we had expected to pack the house up. Essentially it was the same amount of work as if we were permanently moving. Nonetheless, we did a terrific purge of long overheld possessions and cleaned little corners of the place that hadn't seen soap or a dust cloth in many years. The new tenants move in today and we have a good feeling that things will work fine with ...

Join us for a farewell party in our backyard from 4pm until whenever on Saturday, July 27. We plan to put all our reaming meat and fish on the BBQ or fire so either take your chances with that or bring your own. Same with our liquor cabinet that we want empty before we leave. The golden rule is not to bring anything with you that you don't plan to take tat night/ morning. This is a kid friendly event right up to 8 pm (ish) so bring the young ones for some fun ...

Two major obstacles cleared since last post! Deb's Dad is out of the hospital and doing well and we rented our house out for the year. Now we can focus on the more travel related stuff like tickets to Johannesburg, football tickets and whether to go sailing in Greece or Croatia. We leave exactly one month from tomorrow!

It's spitting down rain here in Yellowknife as I type the first of what I expect will be many posts to this blog. It's been a bloody cold winter, crappy spring and downright maritime June so far. Perfect. I'm ready for some new sights and patterns. Only six weeks until we hit the road. Many small things, one medium thing and one serious matter are occupying our planing right now. I won't bother you with all the small things but they range from currency conv...