Packing, packing, and Cleaning, and Why is my backpack to Heavy ! It is simply amazing how much stuff we have crammed into this little house. Our family of four, we are quite comfortable living in a 900 square foot house. You'd think 'small house = less stuff = easier to clean', but the math doesn't work that way. Not only are we taking our personal items out of the house, we are also packing for two trips - driving across Canada, then starting the world trip. E...

Four weeks to go before we pack up the house, load up the car and drive out of town. Interestingly, if we had planned ot leave today - we could not since the one and only road out of town has been closed due to forest fires !. We'd be trapped. Some say, now is a good time to leave, since there does appear to be a ring of forest fires circling our town of Yellowknife, and the fires have been effecting out electrical supply - meaning there have been frequent and le...

Six weeks to go before we leave town on our Adventure. Between now and then there is a lot to do, including pack up the house (leaving furnature and non-personal stuff), finalize travel plans, winterize the house (it is now +25C), pull the motor boat and sailbout out of the water....lots of chores, and of course enjoy the Yellowknife Summer.!. Thus far, the plan is to drive across Canada, visiting friends along the way to Quebec City, then to Toronto where will ...