It’s getting down to the wire – December 21st as I begin this year’s letter. The first day of the Christmas holidays for the kids. They are decompressing after nearly four months of school, Linds is meal-planning for the holiday, […]
Arizona Part Three
I ended the last post describing our brush with the law and an unexpected lesson on the importance of dental hygiene and basic geography while traveling south to Tucson. Overall, our interaction with Apache law enforcement was surprisingly pleasant – […]
Arizona Part Two
Our trip started with a bang: mid-flight temporary insanity, the single best morning of photography we’ll ever know, and a last-minute detour to none other than The Grand Canyon. And we’d barely been in Arizona for 24 hours. That night, […]
Arizona Part One
It’s been a while since we’ve written a travel blog post because, well, it’s been a while since we’ve traveled. This time it’s just me and Linds – and even this trip was far from certain. There have been a […]
Christmas Letter 2022
It’s almost Christmas. As I put the finishing touches on this letter, there are white-out conditions outside and the wind sounds like it’s going to blow the door in. Gotta love these Ontario winters. But I’ll take inclement weather over […]
Christmas Letter 2021
It’s 6 am on December 22, 2021. The news is all about the Omicron variant causing yet another wave of COVID-19. Everyone is cancelling long-awaited trips and Christmas get-togethers yet again. We’re coming up on two years of this pandemic […]
Christmas letter 2019
The last time we posted on this blog was four months ago, at the end of our one year journey around the world, so you might be wondering what the heck happened to us. “Are they depressed that their trip […]
The last day
There is an entire continent (South America) that we have not posted about yet – we are a little behind, but those pieces are coming. In the meantime, even if it throws our little blog out of chronological order, I […]
What on earth are travel bucks?
We were touring around Urubamba, Peru with our wonderful driver, Enrique, in his beat-up white station wagon. Eli and Jake were the lucky ones who got to ride in the very back. At one point Eli was being silly and […]
Stuck on a nail
A man pays a visit to a friend. As they sit on the front porch talking, the friend’s dog lies beside them, twitching and wimpering. “What’s wrong with your dog?” the man asks.“Oh, there’s a nail sticking up in the […]