Archive for August, 2009

disobeying the signs - moncton, new brunswick - february 14th, 2009

There we were, as usual, not listening to what those with less ignorance had told us. Looking at this picture now, six months later, I realize that it’s who I am: a person who disobeys. Why shouldn’t we? Who gets rewarded for colouring inside the lines passed the age of five?

There are times in our lives when we can feel defeated, exhausted and hopeless. It’s these times, that I turn to my past to invigorate the future I know is before me. I have two provinces left on my mission to see every one of this beautiful country (the territories will be added one day when I can properly afford it) and a part of me can’t believe it. I know the Maritimes must be visited once again in the summer months, and I’ll do that and tick off Newfoundland to the last of my east coast journeys as well.

For now, however, I can remember what an amazing time, what an amazing country we live in, and smirk at the memories of people warning me to get out of my trip plans before it was too late: “winter in the Maritimes?! Are you crazy?”

I guess we were.

august 2, 2009 - old beauty

About three weeks after I decided that something in my life needed to change, I decided to take a trip to Regina, Saskatchewan to visit an old friend of mine. The drive from Calgary took about seven hours with my ten month old cat meowing incessantly in the backseat of my car and I loved every minute of it.

Throughout the course of the trip, my friends and I drove around the province and ended up visiting many small towns along the way. Mostly because we got lost, but every wrong turn became a beautiful discovery – like the small junkyard (which was really someone’s deserted backyard) above.

The entire trip was an eye opener. Not only to the beautiful country that I live in, but all the amazing discoveries one can make if you just take a look around. And maybe, take a wrong turn sometimes.