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TRAVELS WITH KENNY
Adventures in Retirement
All couples get to know each other differently in retirement. Here's my journey--mostly funny, sometimes poignant--of reacquainting myself with my beloved life partner as we adjust to life without work.
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At my feet lies a world yet to be imagined
Walking or driving in my city, and suddenly discovering a street or neighbourhood that doesn't exist. There is a very specific...

Heather Avery
Sep 4, 20231 min read


Art and Arches
Checked out my photos from the trip looking for blog inspiration, and realized that either: 1) my eye is drawn to arches or 2) that's all...

Heather Avery
Mar 15, 20231 min read


City Living
One imagines a vacation destination long before arrival--the sights, the scents, the sounds. Imagining Seville, I thought of Christian...

Heather Avery
Mar 15, 20232 min read


On to the Romans
Leaving Christianity behind for a blog post or two to consider other ways of being. Just north of Seville, we visited some incredible...

Heather Avery
Mar 5, 20231 min read


Eating!
So, just letting everyone know, despite the walking and cycling we're doing, no one should expect slimmer, trimmer versions of us when we...

Heather Avery
Mar 5, 20231 min read


Christ on the Cross and other Images
So, we're here. My anxiety was needless; even with a flight diversion and the usual small delays, we made all our connections and landed...

Heather Avery
Mar 1, 20232 min read


Adiós al invierno
Kenny and I are heading out again, via plane, train and not-even-automobile-but-bus to Sevilla, Spain. Imagine us in the land of flamenco...

Heather Avery
Feb 24, 20231 min read


Kitchen Reno Love--Valentine's Day Update
When Ken and I decide to test the strength of our relationship in retirement, we don't mess around. Six-week road trips, month-long...

Heather Avery
Feb 14, 20222 min read


Montreal Musings
I'm two days into a month-long stay in Montreal, and not sure whether I'm celebrating joy and peace or maybe just seeing the end of days....

Heather Avery
Dec 21, 20213 min read


Adventures in Household Management, #1
Retirement has some odd benefits. I have much more time to be curious about our household operations, for example, and have begun to...

Heather Avery
Nov 24, 20211 min read


Shifting Focus: Redefining Adventure, One Tiny Pumpkin at a Time
So. We're home now, back in Peterpatch, settling into late fall, trying to get back into routines. The unpacking long since done, the...

Heather Avery
Nov 16, 20212 min read


Home at Last
11500 kilometres later, and we are safely home. Northern Ontario was disappointingly rainy, so we cut off a few days from our trip, but...

Heather Avery
Oct 20, 20211 min read


Victory Finally
Today, at Batchewana Bay, as the wind howled outside the trailer, and clouds scudded across the moon, I finally beat Ken at Scrabble. I...

Heather Avery
Oct 16, 20211 min read


Goodwater
Sinclair Ross’s “One’s a Heifer” made me a fan of prairie literature at the tender age of fifteen. During university years, I worked my...

Heather Avery
Oct 13, 20213 min read


A Day in the Life: Fall Camping 101 or 2.0
I think that most of you know Ken and I aren’t really campers. We’re hardy, not averse to campfire smoke, and own sleeping bags (though...

Heather Avery
Oct 9, 20212 min read


Saying Goodbye to Ken Senior
One of the reasons for our journey west was to scatter the ashes of Ken’s father. Ken Senior had passed away prior to COVID-19, so it...

Heather Avery
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Adventures in and around Sooke
To start: Gloria and Cam were excellent outdoor guides. This photo was pretty typical of how we saw them on our visit—they were game to...

Heather Avery
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Brothers, Sooke BC
We have been camped out for five days at Sooke, BC with Ken’s brother Cam (see below—it’s great to hang out with blood relatives and see...

Heather Avery
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Master Gardener Dawne
You know when you marry into a family, there is always at least one relative who is accomplished in almost every way imaginable? For me,...

Heather Avery
Sep 28, 20211 min read


The Avery-Yates’s went over the mountain
Haven’t posted for a few days because we have been concentrating on driving—both on covering ground and on managing 7% descents with...

Heather Avery
Sep 27, 20212 min read
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