the turquoise trail

Some of you will be wondering why anyone would feel the need to pack their life into 1.039 cubic feet.  Well, once again, me and my ambitious dreams are going on an adventure!  This time, it will be in the form of a road trip to Canada's east coast... on my motorcycle!  The saddlebags that I have on my bike can hold an extremely limited amount of things (i.e. 1.039 cubic feet worth of things..) hence the need to have a panic attack and seriously question what prompted this idea in the first place.   Luckily, that only lasted about 5 minutes and I came up with a solution.. which brings me to my next point..  Err..  Basically.. you should know that if you think you're going to be successful in getting your life into 1.039 cubic feet, you're setting yourself up for failure.  Accept it, embrace it, and go get yourself some more space.  Thankfully, my dad is awesome, so this particular pursuit required very minimal effort on my part....

{Monday October 13th} We got up around 8a this morning to finish packing things up and get ready to go. We checked out of our hotel and headed to the car rental return shortly after 9a. We returned our car with no trouble and then got the shuttle to the airport. We checked in around 10a and made our way through security.  Once we were in the airport, we wandered around for a little while and found something to eat. I got a scone from Starbucks, which came with it's own mini jar of strawberry jam! So delicious. We boarded our plane shortly before 12p without any trouble. We are flying with Air Canada, on quite a large plane so thankfully we will have a little bit more space than we did on the way over.  There aren't any tvs on the seats, and I finished my book just before takeoff, but air canada has an app you can use to watch tv shows or movies on your iPhone or you can rent an iPad, which is pretty cool!  (not going to lie.. I was really starting to quest...

{Sunday October 12th} I got up around 8:30a this morning to a lovely view of the river. I had a shower, and then enjoyed a cup of tea looking over the water in a stellar leather armchair.  Shortly, it was time to get ready and get packed up again. We went downstairs to load the car (without dropping any keys) and met Maeve around 10:30a.  From Chris's apartment, it was a short drive over to Pearl and Tommy's where we met for church this morning. We had a lovely meeting, and met a man who had travelled well across Canada as a country singer in his youth.  We stayed at Pearl and Tommy's for a delicious roast lamb dinner, complete with all the fixings. It was awesome to have some lamb!   We spent the afternoon with them and Maeve, and then headed out shortly before 4p to go to a gospel meeting about an hour south of Belfast, on our way to Dublin.  We got as far as the motorway (barely 1km), before I knew something was wrong. I pulled over to the sid...