Who We Are
Okay, let’s take care of some necessary business-like introductions and a little background. We are Johanne and Ed, a Canadian retired couple in their ‘60s who are not quite ready for rocking chairs and safe food. In our previous working lives, we did some extensive travelling, visiting 20 or so countries on trips that usually, like most people, lasted up to three weeks.
But the urge to travel like hippies never left us, and now that we have some time and energy, well, we’re heading down the highway and looking for adventure (apologies to Steppenwolf). We’re not talking backpacking and hostels, more like “flashpacking” and two or three-star hotels and guesthouses, travelling for at least three months and having a very loose itinerary.
We plan to pick a destination and make most of the trip up as we go, staying longer (or less) at places and changing itineraries on the fly. The thing is, we travel well as a couple. We complement each other under the pressure of a crisis when adrenaline is flowing, and panic is not far from the surface. We think this trip will certainly test that theory.
I will do most of the writing with a little proofing from Ed because I was born and raised in Montreal and my first language is French, so at times, I’ve been known to mix a metaphor or fracture a thought. Ed will be shooting and editing most of the pictures.
Our first long trip will be Southeast Asia. In the past, throughout our travels, our friends and family have enjoyed our posting pictures and small captions as we travelled. Now, because we are embarking on our first 3-month trip (if truth be told partially to escape the cold Montreal winter, brrrr), we decided that a blog was appropriate for this trip. First to keep everyone informed that we are still alive and well, and second to try and capture the essence of what we will be seeing throughout our adventure.
We hope that you will find our stories engaging, and who knows, maybe we’ll inspire some of you to travel to parts of the world you might not otherwise visit.
We plan to pick a destination and make most of the trip up as we go, staying longer (or less) at places and changing itineraries on the fly. The thing is, we travel well as a couple. We complement each other under the pressure of a crisis when adrenaline is flowing, and panic is not far from the surface. We think this trip will certainly test that theory.
I will do most of the writing with a little proofing from Ed because I was born and raised in Montreal and my first language is French, so at times, I’ve been known to mix a metaphor or fracture a thought. Ed will be shooting and editing most of the pictures.
Our first long trip will be Southeast Asia. In the past, throughout our travels, our friends and family have enjoyed our posting pictures and small captions as we travelled. Now, because we are embarking on our first 3-month trip (if truth be told partially to escape the cold Montreal winter, brrrr), we decided that a blog was appropriate for this trip. First to keep everyone informed that we are still alive and well, and second to try and capture the essence of what we will be seeing throughout our adventure.We hope that you will find our stories engaging, and who knows, maybe we’ll inspire some of you to travel to parts of the world you might not otherwise visit.
~Travel like nobody's watching~
Cute....you look ready to travel!!
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