What? Good bye? Already? I haven’t even written about all of the wonderful things about this city that have so captivated us! With less than a week left in our stay here, I had so much more to say, but now the question is “do…
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Our time here in La Paz is coming to a close and we keep asking ourselves “where did all the time go?”. It seems as if we just got here and got settled and now we have to leave. What the heck? And I am…
As the world seems to be determined to descend into chaos, here’s a thought. We all need La Paz, which means peace. We can have our differences of opinion, come from other countries or places, speak different languages, look different and dress differently. But do…
Yes, this is true. Although I like to keep this blog light in tone, I don’t want to be disingenuous and say that everything is wonderful all of the time. When you are out travelling for a good length of time, things happen and you…
“Wait, what?” I can hear you saying, “You ARE away!”. Well, yes, this is true, but you see, we are living here for the moment and so, we decided after a month and a half, we needed a little break from our every day life…
What happens when you come to a place such as this, a paradise where so many come to vacation, but you come with a different purpose. You come to live, not holiday. How does that change what you do and how you experience the place…
Yes, we are indeed, on the road again. Well before we were inundated with “atmospheric rivers” and cold weather, we were dreaming of travelling once again. The actual impetus for this trip began with a football game. My family has traditionally gone to the Apple…
Since coming back to Vancouver Island in March of 2019, we have rarely left our island home. To anyone living elsewhere, this might seem very strange. Don’t we miss the excitement of the big city of Vancouver? Don’t we feel constricted living on an island? …
We have been good. Really really good. We have followed the rules, worn our masks, gotten our vaccinations and still we cannot travel beyond our borders (at least by land, that is). And we are getting just a bit frustrated – make that a lot frustrated. We had…
What do wanderers do when they can’t wander? Over a year ago we were called home due to the pandemic. At the time we just worried about getting across the border and then surviving the two weeks of quarantine. How were we, who spent the…