Bruce 
Baharak and I like to pick a neighbourhood, somewhere in and around our hometown of Montreal, and spend the day like a tourist. We explore, wander, try a coffee shop or pub and spend an afternoon getting to know a local spot. Last week we decided on a visit to one of Montreal’s most famous streets, St. Laurent Blvd, otherwise known as … Read More
A quick update before writing about a couple recent trips to Magog, Quebec and Quebec City – both of which were terrific. We started planning pretty far in advance and that has worked out great for us. It’s given me a chance to really work on the main online business – and that is now in such a state that … Read More
Our family just spent a couple days in a Quebec Yurt. Let’s start with a quick question: why on earth would somebody living a very comfortable life, in a nice house and all the accompanying luxuries of city living purposefully choose to head off into the woods with the now-apparent objective of being bug food? Why trade a couch, a … Read More
There are days when sitting on the couch eating roasted nuts and watching 5 episodes of Sherlock Holmes on Netflix is absolutely the best use of your time. But there are also days when a little hands on exploration is called for. Today was one of those days. Often the most interesting things to discover are found right in your own backyard … Read More
Things keep getting more and more fun with our planning. We crossed the two year barrier with our countdown, only 23 month to go. Sometimes it seems like forever but when we look at the amount of saving and research required – well time is clicking along at a nice pace. We bought an IKEA wall map and planned out … Read More
We must be nuts planning a trip over two years in the future. I’m hoping that once we’re on our way the 2+ year wait won’t be remembered as being sooo long. We’ll look back and see that we were smart to take the time to save up enough money so that we had a comfortable cushion, smart to … Read More
With only 2.5 years to go until our big getaway the time has come to begin planning. Ideally we would probably only save & plan for about a year, maybe a year and a half but we’ll be traveling with our young son and the timing is important. We decided that missing grade 4 would be the best for him. … Read More