SUMMER METAMORPHOSIS

And now, for something completely different. We’ll be caravanning across Canada this summer.

Granville the dog, OrangePekoe the cat, and us travelling in our 6.5 metre caravan. Camping spots are booked in national and provincial parks across the country. There are a couple of exceptions, of course, because sometimes we will stop to visit family and friends, and we are hopeful that some family and friends will find us at our camping spots along the way.

We leave on July 1st, Canada Day. It’s a classic Canadian road trip, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, eight provinces in about as many weeks, a bit rushed but still.... And with a complete change at the far end of the trip.

I’ll post snapshots from along the way - on Facebook, and on a Blog.

What brought about this trip?  We had planned to caravan west across Canada, taking a couple of summers to complete the trip (no fun caravanning during a Canadian winter).  This summer we'd planned to travel just about half way across the country.  Then next summer we'd continue to the west coast.  It has all been truncated to happen this summer.

Why?

Sometimes life throws us a sweet curveball.  

At the end of April I signed a contract for an interesting job in British Columbia. It'll mean a couple of years in Wuikinuxv, a village in a remote part of the BC Central Coast area, north of Port Hardy but south of Bella Bella.  It's a fly-in community, with a supply barge every couple or three weeks, depending on weather.  

We were flown out for a recce, and both of us loved the environment (an iconic Canadian landscape of mountains rising straight out of the water). We enjoyed the people we met, and the job is just enough of a challenge to be fun, but not so much as to be daunting.  

Nigel plans to fish a lot, and generally putter around. That's pretty much what he does now; well here he plays golf.

So - changes are happening.  Change is good.  Both of us like to see what's over the horizon, and experience new places. We'll have it right here in our own country. Perfect!