The blog goes on!
After recovering in Miami for a few days (which was full of breast implants and Paris Hilton look-a-likes….and that was just the men!) we now feel ready to be reintroduced to modern society and hopefully will remember not to wee in the garden. So we find ourselves in Canada living with two problems; our immigration isn’t complete and neither is our apartment; both look like they are two to three months away. We are currently living in someone’s basement and driving a car from Rent-a-Wreck which isn’t as bad a situation as it sounds. The basement is 1500sqft, three bedrooms, fully furnished with cable TV, garage parking and a hot tub and the car – no one will steal that (it even has a cassette player!).
As we are unable to legally get jobs here we have decided the only thing to do is carry on travelling, so on Sunday we will fly off to Thailand for a month to do volunteer work at an animal refuge, then on to Cambodia for a month to do volunteer work building water filters and helping at an orphanage. We have equipped ourselves with mosquito nets and had yet another injection (apparently we’re not indestrucable enough!) and will be repacking our bags for the tropics instead of the antarctic. This also means I will have to continue this blog even if the title is a bit misleading.
Tags: Travel
rob.dulcie
That’s fantastic but don’t you think that your volunteering services would have been better suited to the washing and flapping of our dishes around New Zealand?
Hello Rob and Dulcie
Sorry we haven’t been in contact – a few unexpected events have kept us really busy.
Shame about immigration and apartment problems. It just proves my theory that contractors and immigration officials are one and the same super villain. Have you ever seen them together in the same room? No, didn’t think so.
Good luck with the Asia trip and don’t worry about the blog title. We have had many Marxist scooter riders in that part of the world also. It’s just that none of them got their own movie and face printed on t-shirts!
Keep posting…
Hello there,nrnrSorry you’ve had to slum it in Canada – we should have it so good!nrnrSorry not to responded earlier – family matters intervened but I’m now less busy.nrnrLook forward to hearing all about the volunteering and then to having an address for you in Canada. Who knows, we may even visit – now there’s a threat.nrnrMuch love,nrnrMargaret & Des
Good to see that the adventure is set to continue, I think if you ask most people the whole living in one country and having a proper job idea is vastly overated. We’ve been following with keen interest for ideas for our own mid-life crisis – carry on with the good work. Big Love always Dave & Helen.
I think you’re discovering the first rule of independent travel – it has a habit of becoming addictive… Good luck with the voluntary work – sounds like it’ll be sweaty yet rewarding. Keep taking the pictures! And the anti-malarials… 🙂 Best from sunny (and still student-free) Lboro!
Glad the blog’s carrying on! It brightens our mundane life up! Abigail will be thrilled that you’re going to an animal santuary, that’s what she wants to do (any room for an 8 year old helper). Keep well and don’t come back with a spare orphan !!!!!
Jack
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read.