The length of our stay in Toronto was heavily reliant on the efficiency of the Ontario Health Care system which is why we went from a plan of 3 months to a reality of 6 months. In that time my slightly broken DH had multiple root canal and crazy-glue procedures on her teeth, rehabilitated a sciatica, had a steroid injection in her hip to provide pain relief for a torn groin meniscus, and underwent knee surgery for a different torn meniscus. All of this included m...

We wrapped up Iceland and Part 2 of our somewhat aimless wandering.How do we define Part 1, Part 2, etc of our worldwide wanderings? The site we use for the blog (TravelPod) has a nice feature which allows you to create softcover books/journals which include all of the blog posts, photos, and maps. As some (all?) of our readers have pointed out, it can be somewhat time consuming to work through each blog and all of the attached photos. And apparently TravelPod ag...

Who knew that our short stay in Toronto taking care of a few loose ends would have us empathizing with the squeezed Gobi Desert nomads we stayed with some months ago. The bureaucratic monoliths of modern society do not like nomads without a fixed address. A certified copy of our rental lease was required for a library card (??) and the pup tent in the backyard of Deb & Dave B where we stay as virtual guests has served as our 'primary' address (the lack of...

Landing in at Pearson airport was a bit sad. It was nice to be home (although I'm not sure it feels like home anymore), but the screeching tires on the tarmac marked the official end to Part 1 of our world tour. We're going to try to stabilize the Canadian government by paying our taxes for the last couple of years, catch up with friends who long ago routed all of our emails to their spam filter (DH who??), and hit the nearest gym to see if we can redisco...

So here's the plan: both DH and I are going to retire early, put our finances in order, sell our home of 17 years, sell most if not all of the contents, put our wills and various other legal doc's together, arrange for extended health insurance, sell our cars on the day we leave on our worldwide trip, and do it all within a couple of months so we could hit our hard coded departure date. In our spare time we travelled to Morocco, Winnipeg, Cleveland, and N...