Ottawa, Canada

Travel has always been an important part of my life. My father was a school teacher so we spent the summers of my youth travelling and camping throughout our home province of Manitoba and from one end of Canada to the other and back several times.

During married life, travel stayed an important part of my life, but starting a business, having a family, immersing myself in politics, building a cottage in northern Ontario, and later moving to Ottawa and 2 years working for the government meant travel had to take a lower rank among the many other priorities. Those other things were important and I wouldn’t have changed any of the important decisions I made along the way, but it is now time for me.

I retired on Oct 17, 2014.

Now that my only priority is time spent with my awesome daughter Gillian, and her husband Phil, along with my many family and friends across the country, it’s time to put travel back up near the top of the priority list along with getting and keeping myself healthy and mobile so that I can, you guessed it, travel.

One of my happiest places is when I am driving down a secondary road, not knowing what is around the next corner. So, when my brother-in-law mentioned a small travel trailer that his brother had bought that my CRV could tow, the plan started to gel in my mind.

Today I took a major step towards one of my dreams. I ordered a 13′ fibreglass Scamp travel trailer. It will be ready to pick up at the end of April. My plan is to spend the spring/summer travelling in Canada and then in the fall I’ll head south to Florida, across the southern States to California and north up the coast to BC to arrive there next spring.

I have often said that the planning and anticipation of a trip is at least half the fun. So I thought I would start this blog here on the day that process begins in earnest. Many of you aware of my plans have said you would like to come along on my journey, so this blog is a way for you to do that.

Let me know if there is anything you’d like to hear about along the way!

NOTE: After this posting, I attended an RV Show in Ottawa and decided to buy a Prolite Trailer instead of the Scamp. It’s Canadian-made and ticks some of the other boxes.