We are waiting for our flight to Bangkok via Abu Dhabi in Toronto. Finally have a few minutes to write as it's been a very busy week selling a car and a few bikes and again culling our lives down some more so we can carry or pull everything we need for almost 9 months. I did write a French blog post after Montreal but never got around to posting it so it will come once we are in Thailand as Internet has been challenging over the last week (strange considering we ...

(translation below) Un petit blogue en français car on vient de passer une superbe fin de semaine à Montreal avec mon frère et sa famille. On a stationné notre auto vendredi soir et ne la pas conduit avant ce matin. C'était un rêve pour moi de me promener en ville à vélo avec ma famille et les filles se sont bien adapter dans le traffic et vraiment aimer les raccourcis dans les ruelles. Steve et moi ont profité de quelques heures sans enfants pour faire...

A few have been wondering where we are...not too worry, we are just busy visiting friends and family and not taking the time to write! After we left Wawa we headed to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec where my dad is from. We had a great visit and learned a lot about the history of the town which was quite interesting. Noranda was a planned mining town and Rouyn was a more chaotic rural town that sprung up beside it. They are no longer underground mining in Noranda but the ...

It felt a little like coming home to Yellowknife when we crossed the Manitoba-Ontario border...rocks and boreal forest. We missed the big open skies of the prairies but loved arriving in Kenora with the geese and fall colours. We had a nice quiet campsite overlooking the Lake of the Woods. Unfortunately we couldn't stay very long as Ontario is one big province to get across so we pressed on to Thunder Bay where we headed straight to the shore of Lake Superior to ...

Wow, Winnipeg was a blast! Its a great city to begin with and we were so lucky to experience it with Rhian, Colin, Kaya and Mahri, our old neighbours in Yellowknife but also native Winnipegers. We couldn't have had better hosts! The traffic is fairly intense in Winnipeg and we managed to make wrong turns through some confusing intersections (they even have a bar at one corner named Confusion corner bar), so the stress has a little high when we arrived from a qui...