10 days until we leave

I need to change the tone and the audience of this blog. I'm not writing or documenting this for you. I'm doing it for me. 

So, I'm changing it to a letter format. During my exploration and purge of all things no longer needed but still stored in the basement - I came across this box of letters from penpals from aged 10 to probably 16/17 years old. Penpals from Ontario via a Toronto Sun postings, Austria, Australia, Finland, Toronto etc. 

I'm reading and burning these letters. They are not interesting. They will never make a novel.

But, I do like writing letters. 

Once we head out on this grand adventure - I will write to Gilles. And it will be natural. I've often written him pages of text via email. And the response when we were 'new' was a paragraph. But, his natural response is a simple "OK" or other such acknowledgement. He is not a writer. And this is OK with me. 

I will write this blog and tell him what his family is up to. And he will minimally respond to me via What'sApp. And that's OK. We'll have video calls. We'll have real discussions - but you don't need to know those details. 

You, the external and mostly anonymous audience will just get to read my thoughts to Gilles. While he stays at home and keeps the homestead 'running'. (And hopefully gets the septic tank pumped out while we're gone.)