Don't know where we're going, but we're making great time.
There’s a bike trail called The Galloping Goose that winds its way from Victoria up the western coast a bit before veering off into the woods. The trail follows an old train route and it’s mostly paved, but gives way in spots to trestle bridges, street routes, and a few dirt roads. Though we have…
One of the challenges of selling almost all your worldly possessions and living life on the road is the surprising number of places that insist you need a “legal” address. This cannot be a post office box, despite the amount and type of identification it took to get one. Most of the reasons seem to…
Line 1 – Local Icon FOMO can be a powerful thing. When you spot a long line of people waiting patiently for an experience, you begin to wonder what the value of that experience is. I do, though that urge has been fading a bit. Sometimes I get in a line not quite knowing if…
On one of our first trips to Vancouver Island, Jan and I were staying in a cabin in Tofino. It was rainy and cold outside, and Jan couldn’t wait to get a fire going in the fireplace. He’s gleeful about his fires. I let him have at it while I curled up with my Kindle…
Jan and I spend our first few nights in Canada sprawled out in front of the television, trying to adjust to the time zone change. We settled on one of the most mindless shows ever — Netflix’s Amazing Interiors. I think I was down for the count by the start of episode two, but fortunately…
As Jan and I constantly remind ourselves, despite being at our favorite vacation destination, we are not on vacation! However, we do normally go fishing during the summer so it’s not out of line for us to drop a line. Plus, we have to eat, right? Jan found a skipper out of Sooke who could…
How do you pack for an open-ended stay on the road? We are figuring it out as we go along. Here’s a catalog of what we took to make the first two months work, and a few additions we needed to round things out. Clothes Part of the challenge of down-sizing the condo was also…
I noticed the blackberry brambles on our first bike trip. It’s hard not to — most of the roadways and trails are covered with berries, and bonus, they’re ready to pick! Baking at an AirBnB can be an undertaking, but cobbler is simple enough to, well, cobble together. We headed out to the bike trail with…
We chose two months on Vancouver Island in British Columbia to begin our journey. It’s our happy vacation place, and we thought that would ease any sudden pangs of living without a permanent roof in Chicago. But we did opt for the more populated Victoria (84,000 metropolitan/tourist types) versus the remote “drinking village with a…