Nobody believes me when I say that the 80 days thing is a coincidence. But it is.
We leave the day after Isabel's last exam and return the day before the first full day of school. 80 days.
Actually from take off to touch down at Winnipeg International is 79 days and 20 hours, but door to door from our house... precisely 80 days.

And a bit about the backstory. In 1993 after three years in veterinary practice Lorraine and I quit our jobs and backpacked around the world for eight months, doing everything from living in a cave in Greece (a very nice cave mind you) to camel trekking across the Rajastani desert to celebrating Christmas in Hong Kong to island hopping in Thailand to volcano climbing in Indonesia to living with a family in Samoa to... well, the list does go on and on. Everyone said, "Wow, that was the trip of a lifetime!" To which we responded, "Nooo! It can't be the only time we do that! It just can't be." We swore we would do something similar again when we had kids. It's 22 years later. Isabel is 13. Alexander is 10.
It's time.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Day 49 In Which Tim Burton And Terry Gilliam Have A Love Child

And in which this child grows up to become an architect and designer and moves to Cape Town and conjures this space we are renting.

We have stayed in some spectacular and eclectic rentals, but this one wears the crown. From the porthole windows to the  wacky light switches to the "backyard" shower to the art and furniture and antiques and window coverings to the hidden wall panel cellar entrance and cantilevered bathroom mirror and open den toilet and washing machine balcony and and and... unique does not even begin to describe it. And the views...

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