We have one more sleep to go – in fact in less than 24 hours we’ll be in Chicago wasting time before we board the plane to Cancun! Right now we’re just tying up loose ends with credit cards, etc., and we had a productive morning dumping the last bit of stuff out back. So…
We have 2 sleeps before we leave. It’s super exciting! It also feels as though we have heaps more to do and not enough time. I am sure we are set on course, tonight we offloaded some more stuff to Ewan’s cousin, did our last bit of laundry, semi-packed our backpacks and are wandering the…
We have less than two weeks before we fly away on the last day of 2013 to wake up fresh on the first day of the New Year on Day 1 of our epic adventure. While it would be nice to say that everything is taken care of, the reality is that we have quite…
On facebook a friend recently posted a link where you can see how many of the ‘100 places to see before you die’ you’ve actually seen. While it can be arguable if this is THE top 100 things to see in the world, it is always fun to see how you measure up. Ewan…
In the early planning days, before we had even told our family about our travel plans, we wanted to start to get psyched up for it. So we placed reminder signs in our apartment; one on the ceiling above our bed, so we would see it just before we fell asleep and first then in…
I have decided to embark upon a daily blog post coordinated with a countdown to our trip. Here is the meaning and reasoning behind this: In my experience, most countdowns are fun and exciting. (I’d say the most memorable countdown for me was the countdown to midnight of my 18th birthday.) We still have lots…
So…it’s December 1st; this means we’ve got 30 days until we take off on our year-long trip. A few days ago I likely would have been hyperventilating about that fact, but we actually got a lot accomplished this past weekend so our to-do list doesn’t seem as daunting. While we did spend a sweat-inducing amount…
I’m on my way to Ottawa; the purpose of the trip is business, but with family up there, including my grandfather, I am extending my visit to get some last minute quality time in before we begin our epic journey. We are lucky; earlier in November we had a visit from Ewan’s parents (and his…
There are 54 sleeps until we leave on our life-changing adventure. In our last post I mentioned how we are feeling overwhelmed but that it is worth it. Worth it to conquer our fears, face failure straight on and have faith in ourselves. And it still is worth it – we won’t throw in the…
Well…all of this business of travelling has somehow now started to legitimately feel real. Why? Well, first off we bought our tickets for the first leg of our trip. We leave December 31st and fly into Cancun. I think it is fitting that we get to ring in the new year in a different country…