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| Alex Haley will keep us engaged. |
We live on the very edge of a very large, diverse, interesting continent, most of which is not visible from a commercial airplane.
My friend Oisin and his wife Katherine live on a beautiful island off the coast of Vancouver, which is a place I would like to visit.
I haven't seen them since forever. In fact, it's been so long, Oisin has never met Himself, my husband.
We have a car. And brand new tires.
So we figured, if we drove over to Oisin's house for the weekend, we'd get to see a whack of the rest of Canada and some of the States on the way.
What's crazy about any of this?
Ontario, apparently.
Driving through Ontario is an endless boring nightmare, apparently.
Don't shout at me, these are Canadians telling me this.
Although I couldn't imagine anything worse than driving through New Brunswick, it struck me at some point that of course, we are going to have to drive through New Brunswick again to get to Ontario.
So I went to the library and got the longest audio-book I could find, which happened to be Roots, by Alex Haley.
I also noticed this audiobook (pictured left) on the shelf.
Seeing as I am going to celebrate my 42nd birthday on this trip, it's time to have it read to me again.
So, we have our shoulder bag of travel books, which we have listed on the left so you can keep up, or read if you are bored with our trip.
We have packed our audiobooks and Kindle editions, and Kobo versions, and .pdfs of various articles and maps and guides and everything else in the shoulder bag which is now kinda heavy.
I thought the invention of the e-Reader was supposed to simplify everything.
Now, I just have to go and pack everything else and bring Shannon to her kennels (unfortunately, it will be too hot for her to come with us) and then we can begin.
