Snowy Day

The red car is back in action. Busted timing belt and needed a new water pump. May have another 250000km's left in her yet. So, not so blue as a couple of days ago but still a bit blue, thinking about Sheena. Went to see the Ecole King George assembly this afternoon to celebrate the outgoing 'virtue' of organization, and February's incoming virtue of "Love". Boy, there's a whole lotta love there...

Read a comment in the paper about blogs, that they're nerdy and self-indulgent, and can rank the death of the family cat on par with that of the Pope. I guess that may be missing the nerdy point about sharing a journal; we don't know the Pope. This is really for David's class when we go wandering.

Fresh snow means possible traction-kiting on the weekend, or maybe just a romp in the powder of the Rockies. Gotta go - RK

January Blues

January comes to an end and it has been a sad last couple of weeks. The death of our dear friend Sheena Lennox has left us feeling very hollow. David and Deirdre flew to Winnipeg for Sheena's memorial. On the way back from the airport in Calgary, our red car died. So many endings at the moment. This page has been created to help us communicate what's happening while we are away on the BIG ADVENTURE. Hard to get geared up for it as a result of recent events, but we'll get there.

We've been thinking about Captain Greg Sager a lot reently too. He has just sold his beautiful schooner, the Passing Cloud, and is a captain with no ship at the moment. He is planning a beautiful retirement in Europe (not unlike his hero Captain Haddock of Tintin fame) but in our minds he is always linked to the sea and his beautiful ship.

We hope to communicate through writing and pictures what's going on as we travel. We leave Calgary Feb. 27th and fly to London to see Jill. From there, we fly to Carcassonne in the South of France. We'll update events from there.

Meantime, we'll try to post some pictures and make this thing look nice. - Rob, Jan 29, 2007