Project Runaway

Take the typical Canadian family and one wild thought that flittered into the mother’s head one day. What if? What if a family decided to leave the comforts of hearth and home and decided to travel. Will it really matter in 50 years that we left our jobs and school, sold the house, and farmed out the beloved family pet?

I have been following other travel blogs, silently lurking and reading, gleaning information here and there. The reasons people decide to travel are varied and diverse and when I look at these travel blogs I imagineshiny happy people behind then. We are not those people. My blog will not be that kind of blog.

We are a family with the common thread that perhaps we have all lost our way. When your children ask you what is the meaning of life and you search your heart andhead and realise that you yourself do not have an answer and that on some level you had been asking the exact same thing of yourself, then you know it is time to make a change.

We leaveMay 26 for Rome, Italy, where we will then make our way to Lucca. Lucca will be our home for the next 3 months as we experience Italian life.

Where will wego after that? Part of the adventure is seeing how the road will unravel before us.