After nearly six weeks of back-to-nature camping in Newfoundland and remote wilderness areas of the USA’s Pacific North West, I have plenty of new stories, funny episodes and close shaves to relate. The travel blog will therefore resume in the next few days.
Our latest travels began on the very first day of our school summer holiday and ended the day before our eldest daughter started at her new (secondary) school. During our six weeks, we typically had no wifi and (following an embarrassing episode with my SIM card) no phone or text. There were usually no showers (ahem!), no sinks, no flush toilets and often no drinking water.
These things were sometimes challenging, but were more than made up for by the magic of each night we spent camping beside our own gurgling, boulder-strewn stream deep within the forest or watching the early morning mist rise above a silently reflective lake surrounded by snow-capped volcanoes.
Over the coming weeks, I will upload travel stories to my web site with the usual Spice mix (Mixed Spice?) of joy, inspiration, revelation, frustration, mishaps, trivia, irreverence, irrelevance, old memories, tales of unexpected help from strangers and inopportune comments from the kids. Enjoy!
If anyone missed my ‘hidden rock’ quiz on Instagram and fancies doing it, you can now find the photo clues, answer sheet and explanations at the ‘Blog & Downloads’ tab on my web site. I’ll be using Instagram to upload two or three travel photos each week, but you can also find them in the blog.
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