Category: Canada
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Side Roads
Fortunately we have the use of a truck while we are on PEI. This opens up the opportunity to turn down the side dirt roads to explore. We could still do that with a car, but as the promise of moisture increases, having a truck with 4×4 is infinitely more comforting. Part of the interesting…
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Lighthouses and Fall Colours
Another beautiful day means another road trip to a new part of the island. We started out our day by heading to the Summerside COVID testing site for our mandatory follow up COVID test after our arrival in PEI. Negative again. Their organization and no nonsense approach to the whole situation is quite refreshing. After…
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First Glimpse of Charlottetown
We have been fortunate enough to continue to have beautiful fall days so we chose to do a road trip to PEI’s capital city, Charlottetown. Our first sign that we were going to have a good day was when we managed to find some free parking for the day in the historic centre, not an…
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Hello, Prince Edward Island
To say I am excited to be typing this blog is a gross understatement. After two years in our home city of Calgary we are back on the road. Our time in Calgary was fantastic on so many levels, however our chosen lifestyle is to be nomadic and we are glad to be back at…
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Hope
As I sit here looking out the window at a perfect New Years Day I am filled with a mixture of hope and concern. It certainly has been a hell of a year on many fronts and even though it really is just another day, the beginning of a new year does seem to bring…
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Fire Wood
One of the advantages of spending some time house sitting in our home city is that friends can visit. Combine that with having friends with a slightly askew sense of humour and life gets interesting. The beauty of having friends like this is they also bring the proper tools with them to get the job…
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House Sitting Serendipity
As with pretty well everyone else in the world, our life is not quite heading the direction we had mapped out 12 months ago. On the plus side, for us we are fortunately still doing very well. Instead of housesitting gigs in Panama and Bonaire, we are now simply enjoying house sitting in Canada. And…
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Nature on our Doorstep
Having said that, we are still making sure we have time to take in the beauty around us. Being in this beautiful valley supplies us with an abundance of nature to enjoy.
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Spring Has Sprung
As I mentioned in an earlier post, adaptability is key to our house sitting lifestyle. Despite the worldwide pandemonium, our life really has not been negatively influenced. In fact, it is going well. A couple of weeks ago we had settled into a fantastic cabin just outside of Calgary and were prepared to wait out…
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Some Rural Time
After spending the last four weeks in Calgary with an incredibly generous mother-in-law, we have moved out to the the rural area just outside of Calgary. The move also coincided with a dramatic improvement in the weather here, Thankfully. It is still dead and brown, but the blue skies and double digit temperatures let you…