The snow continues its unabated fall: St. James and the park are covered in a clean, white carpet of the new stuff; from the 18th floor of our new condo, the crystals are falling up and blowing sideways, obscuring the view of Lake Ontario with a white, moving wall. We have a winter storm warning issued for the next 24 hours but are feeling very comfortable in our new digs, unpacking our brown-boxed lives, shelved and stored for the last fourteen months.


Our new condo, 2 weeks before closing.

We have gotten into the habit of retracing our trip from last year. We pick the day or the week and open the site. March 1st last year we were buying Speedos, settling in to watch the Oscars and planning the south-east Asia part of our adventure.

Life is strangely as we left it 14 months ago. We have settled into Toronto and are happy to see friends and family. Questions continue about our trip and when we run into people we haven’t seen yet, we listen to the same queries: “What was your favourite place?” or “Where would you go back to?” Occasionally (and refreshingly!) people surprise us with an unusual question. The best to date has “Where was your worst experience?” Luckily we don’t have many answers for that!

We are trying to stay in touch with everyone that we met around the world. The joy of the internet is that this is quickly and easily achieved. Yves and Marc in Gent, John and Francois in Paris, Fred and Michiel in Amsterdam and of course Eric, Graham and others in Australia.

The web site continues to be a popular outlet for people. If you are joining followsummer.com for the first time, simply click on the information bar on the right and choose a favourite country or further down, the month and day and enjoy exploring. And don’t forget to click on the pictures to enlarge them. Many people who are travelling have found it to be a wealth of knowledge. Enjoy!

The work search continues unabated for both of us. There are lots of leads and we also continue the networking process of lunches and after work drinks. John is talking to a number of firms. I have three organizations in touch, considering me for varying roles within each of their respective organizations. Whoever is offered a job first will be treating the other to a nice dinner.

Spring is starting to show her head, poking around the metal and granite corners of the high-rises downtown. She has certainly come in like a lion. Hopefully she will go out like a new born Easter Lamb, baa-ing her way into opened windowed, sun-speckled, warmer weather.

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