Eight years ago we mused "Wouldn't it be nice to take a chunk of time off from work to travel?" Four years ago we set mental switch by choosing the date of Nov. 1, 2007 for our travel sabbatical. On Nov. 2 we flew from Ottawa to Vancouver with 7 months of travel in front of us. The last few months have been a blur of work, packing the house, storing our aging cars, work, locating a tenant and then a rush of goodbye lunches, dinners and parties with family and friends. We picked up our rental car at 11 a.m. and raced to the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal with the result that we were the very last car on the 12:30 ferry to Nanaimo - became temporarily lost in Nanaimo before finding the ferry for
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