In the past

Previously, when planning a trip we would both research travel articles, reviews, National Geographic and listen to friends’ travel tales. We would also look out for political, cultural or other milestone events that might interest us to participate in or attend as bystanders. This resulted in some very interesting trips ranging from being in Aung San Suu Kyi’s constituency office in Yangon on the night before the pivotal election in 2012 to being at the opening of an exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s work, in a studio and home that she shared with Diego Rivera in Mexico City, courtesy of Mexican friends. We managed a wonderful Degas Exhibition over a Thansgiving weekend in the Art Institute of Chicago and when the forecast indicated the wildebeest were on the move from the Serengeti, we rushed to the Masai Mara for the annual migration, a task not too difficult as we lived in Kenya at that time! So, recent similar motivations have been scarce, but a wonderful invitation to a close friends’ sons’ wedding in Newfoundland , prompted me to undertake this journey.

It starts tomorrow when I fly to Seattle, then take a ferry two days later to Vancouver Island, onwards two days later to Vancouver, to catch a train and coach thru the Rockies for a week, finishing in Calgary and onwards to Newfoundland! So come with me on my journey, share my experiences, my trials and tribulations, which I hope will be few and the many laughs I know I will have. Let me have your comments, good and bad and join in my trip!