Vancouver Island Vanlife

Hello friends and family! Greetings from Vancouver Island, where we’ve been kicking around for a few weeks. We’ve been surprised by how much there is to see and do here; I think we were both picturing Prince Edward Island or Manitoulin Island (and no, we never consulted a map before we came here). Vancouver Island […]

Bumming around British Columbia

Hello family and friends! This email marks about the two-month mark of our expedition. A lot of uncertainties still hang in the balance, particularly around the US border and whether or not Covid will explode once cooler weather hits, but we are still having fun and getting along and we still have so much country […]

Hiking in Paradise

Hello friends and family! It’s been another two or so weeks, and we have officially hit the 45 day milestone. That’s 45 days of sleeping on a 5-inch foam mattress cut into four pieces to fit our folding bed. 45 days of making outhouse runs and scrubbing ourselves with camp soap in freezing streams. 45 […]

Neglected Country: Northern Ontario and the Prairies

Hello friends and family! As I’m writing this, from a coffee shop in Saskatoon (the “Paris of the Prairies”), it has officially been a month on the road. Can you believe it? I’ve crunched some of the numbers, and in one month, we’ve: -hiked over 100 kilometers; -had one real shower; and -slept in four Walmart […]

Settling into Vanlife in Ontario

Hello friends and family! We’ve been on the road for just over two weeks now – high time for another update on our travels. These past two weeks have been a settling-in period for us, getting used to living in our tiny home without stepping all over each other. Lessons have been learned: don’t forget your purse […]

New Beginnings

Hello friends and family! The last time Eric and I went on an adventure, I sent out the occasional update email and people seemed to enjoy them. This adventure is several magnitudes larger, as it has involved completely packing up our lives in Toronto and taking to the road for, well, a year? Until the money runs […]