Monday, March 12, 2012

One year later

Moving away from your family and friends to live in the forest in the Yukon is the perfect definition of bittersweet. There are such conflicting feelings of separation from all of our loved ones, and waking up daily, filled with joy that comes from living in a beautiful, wild place.

At the one year anniversary of leaving Ontario, thinking back to the early days of being our own hurts a bit still, and the passage of time hasn't made us miss you any less. But as the days of March go by, we can remember where we were this time last year, on our cross-Canada adventure. Here are the fun times we will be reminiscing about over the next few weeks:

March 12- Thunder Bay and Kakabeka Falls
March 13- Sioux Lookout and Kenora
March 15- Driving through Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan
March 16- Waking up in Saskatoon, sleeping in Edmonton
March 17- The Day We Saw The Rockies
March 18- The Day We Skiied The Rockies
March 19- Banff
March 20- Calgary
March 21- Nelson and its lovely people and snow
March 23- Vancouver
March 25- Kamloops
March 27- Mackenzie, BC and onto the Alaska Hwy
March 28- Fort Nelson, near the top of BC
March 29- Into the Yukon!
March 30- First sleep in our new Whitehorse home

Miss you all,
Love Lauren and Colin

Photo by Nicholas Dory
http://nicholasdory.com

2 comments:

  1. Miss you so much...but so happy that you guys have found such bliss. Love you both, HG

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  2. Hey thanks for the prod above that made us reflect on our very 1st sighting of the Rockies and our very 1st taste of mountain skiing! It was the middle of May, 1978. We can still remember the thrill (and intake of air!) when we viewed the majesty of those Canadian Rockies for the first time, rounding that bend on the TransCanada Hwy just outside of Calgary. And Sunshine Village! Sweet alpine valley close to heaven! Accessible only by yellow school bus, back in the day! Looking forward to your reflections of this past year. Miss you! Love you!

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