You don’t have to quit your job and leave the country to experience new and interesting things. Or to delve into a new and different “culture.” You just have to look in your own backyard. Or maybe a neighbour’s backyard, as we recently discovered. In July 2010, we attended the Dawson City Music Festival and came home with about 16 CDs from artists we had never heard of before &#91read more]

It’s official today.  All the conditions are lifted, the deposit is paid.  Our house has sold.  We’re super relieved that it sold before our trip.  Looks like we won’t have to worry about renting after all. Time to start moving, the official handover is May 27th, at 9am. But tonight, we celebrate.  We’ve got a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge.

This last weekend, Easter weekend, Ashley and I made our way up to North Battleford, Saskatchewan to visit family and to celebrate my grandfather’s 77th birthday. We try to make it up that way at least once a year, sometimes for Easter, sometimes for Thanksgiving, so the trip was not a first for us. With our imminent departure only 70 days off as of this writing, things didn’t quite feel &#91read more]

Cue the fanfare, today we present the Rough Itinerary for our RTW trip beginning on July 6th, 2011. If you take the time to review our Rough Itinerary, you’ll notice that we’ve left it quite vague.  So vague that we forgot to include any of the things we plan to do. You’re telling me that you are supposed to put activities into your itinerary?  Are you sure? To make amends, &#91read more]

Our first plane ticket is booked and we finally have a “go” date… July 6, 2011.  No less than 6 days after our final day of work (June 30), we will be on a plane to Cancun, Mexico.  This is going to be a tight schedule to get everything arranged before our departure, but Mike and I agreed that the sooner we could leave, the better. Why Cancun?  It was &#91read more]

It’s only three short months until we embark on our RTW adventure, so we thought it was about time we put down all the things we want to see and, maybe more importantly, do on paper.  OK, so we didn’t actually put this list on paper.  We typed it out.  But  I’m not sure what the digital equivalent of this expression is… encode in binary on a hard drive, maybe? &#91read more]

Update March 29th, 2011 – First off, we would like to thank everyone for the advice they gave.  We received plenty of emails, tweets, and face to face comments in addition to all the wonderful comments on this blog. We seem to be in the enviable position of having to make a decision where either outcome will likely be good. Last night, Ashley and I decided that we would continue &#91read more]