Out with the old and in with the new - my last post

I would like to start this post by showing my Canadianism and apologising for the long break between posts, but I’m not going to. I’m not going to because this blog was started 4 years ago as a travel blog, documenting my journey, discovery and thoughts on my adventures. However, this most recent adventure in Mexico has not only been one of internal discovery and adventure, but it has been one of transition. And neither category really fits the format of this blog.

It has been an adventure of transition, because we chose this location on the well-developed island of Cozumel out of all the possible rugged Latin American and European adventures because it presented the perfect opportunity for us to transition our lifestyle from one of nomad world travelling-backpackers to a relatively sedentary Canadian lifestyle. So contrary to my last 4 years of discovery and adventures, these last months here we have been actively focused on building our life, rather than exploring the lives of the locals around us.

There are just so many new things coming up in our lives and we are trying to embrace them all and be prepared to start the next chapter: We are moving back to Canada to settle for a few years (after 4 years away for me and 2 for Cena), Cena is going back to school upgrading her Degree, I am looking for work in Victoria, and we are getting married this summer! All this is happening almost at the same time in the next few months, so we wanted to spend some time adjusting and building a ‘sedentary’ life and goals before we got there. All while getting a last 6 months stint in Latin America of course.

What I’m getting at then, is that this particular 4 year set of self-discovery, travel, adventures, and updates are coming to an end in less than 2 weeks; we catch our flight March 12th. Which means that the context and background of this blog and this site will no longer be relevant to my/our life in Victoria BC. Our “adventures”, which we will of course still have, will be very different; our journeys will be different; and our ever-changing process of self-discovery will be different. So I believe, that this blog is coming to an end. Although, I do plan on getting the contents of this blog strung together and printed in to book form so I will always have it on hand, because who knows where the future of the internet lies.

I also may still construct another place to write about the next chapter of our lives, because I want a place to document our various hikes, treks and camping adventures, but we shall see.

So for now, I wish you adieu!