Author: featherdavis

We are embarking on a one year tour of North America.  Our car will be home to the four of us as we hit the road.  We’re starting our trip in the Canadian maritime provinces in August, 2009.  In the Fall, we will head South along the Atlantic Coast of North America.

We plan to spend the Holiday Season in Mexico.  The Spring of 2010 will see us heading North up the Pacific Coast.  We aim to arrive in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the end of June 2010.

We are:

Ghis: spontaneous adventurer, lover of technology and nature, 44 years old

Heather: storyteller, teacher, creative thinker, 38 years old

Morgane: gorgeous chatterbox, creative thinker, philosopher, 6 3/4 years old

Carmanah: retired sleddog, shedding sweatheart, 13 years old

Over the years, we have moved many times.  We moved in together in Vancouver, then moved to Prince George. We moved once while still in Prince George, then decided to move to Quebec, moved to Drummondville, then to the countryside, and then to Montreal. We moved from Montreal into our first house, then moved into a storage unit, and finally, a beautiful apartment in Westmount.

Ghis says this will be the last time.  He says our next home will be our home for a very long time.  But for now, we are packing.  Our system is based on our individual preferences. I love packing and having garage sales.  Ghis loves moving things around and completing change of addresses with the different service providers (maybe love is too strong a word). We’re June the 5th.  By June 26th, as Ghis says, we’ll be homeless. At least he says it with a smile.

I put off starting this blog because I couldn’t think of a good name. How could I name our trip when I wasn’t even sure where it would take us? So, I am happy with rambling which describes our style of travel as well as my style of writing.

Rambling (definition from dictionary.com):

1. to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner
2. to take a course with many turns or windings, as  a stream or path
3. to grow in a random, unsystematic fashion
4. to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way