A Little About Our Family

We are a family from Canada’s smallest province – Prince Edward Island. We (Shawn and Julie) have two children; Luke who is 12 and entering grade 7, and Eve who is 9 and entering grade 5 this fall. Our home is beautiful, safe, small and friendly. We live a classic Canadian life. We work all week, attend church on Sunday, and spend a lot of time driving the kids around to their sporting events…..with hockey and ringette being the main sports in the winter, and baseball and softball in the summer. We are blessed to have good jobs, a nice home, great friends and family and the comforts of living in one of the greatest countries in the world. But…we want to see more.

We’ve found that it is easy to just go through the motions of everyday life. Get up, go to work and school, participate in sports and activities, eat, sleep, and repeat. We know that we are very, very fortunate to have the life we enjoy, but at the same time, we have a feeling of longing, of being unsettled, of wanting to experience more of this world.

So, we decided to do something different. Something we had dreamt about but didn’t know if we could make happen. We downsized our life and made plans to take 10 months of leave from work, made plans to homeschool the kids, and started making a list of the places we would love to visit in this big, wide world.

And now, that time has come. After months of planning, dreaming, researching, booking, talking, and maybe a few arguments, we are heading off on what we hope will be the adventure of a lifetime. We hope it will refocus our lives, allow us time as a family to make memories and prepare us for coming back to our life with a broader perspective of the world, and a greater sensitivity for other cultures, people, and places.

If you are reading our blog, we hope you will follow our adventure and perhaps be inspired to live out a dream of yours that you have been putting on the back-burner. Our dream has been to travel and see the world, and we are taking the first step to live that dream. As cliché as it is, seize the day! There is no time like now to make a change. We don’t know how this trip will go…we may decide long term travel isn’t for us, people could get sick, luggage could get lost, accommodations may not pan out! But, even the challenges are an experience, and will teach us things about ourselves and each other. We’ve put our fears aside and decided to take the plunge and follow our dreams. As the quote says…. a ship in the harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

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