Eric Bailey's

I just had a cousin and her husband stop in and stay the night. It has been fun the last little while we seem to have become a good place to stop for people we know (and some we don't) who are passing through town. I like having visitors, although I would like to spend more time with some of these people to actually get to know them again. However I understand the desire to keep moving down the road too.

I am just about settled enough from our last trip to be thinking about the next ones again. Actually I am getting a grip on the various tasks that I have no time to finish before the deadline is up. I know that our trip at Christmas is being planned as a quick trip to Minnisota somewhere, but I would like to make Victoria a destination at some point. Oh yeah, after Christmas our next trip is to Florida with some friends of ours. It sure looks like I won't be planning any trips soon.

Another cool destination to me would be to go east to PEI or even as far as Newfoundland. I have been to PEI before and most of the eastern provinces, but not to Newfoundland. When I was about my oldest sons age we did a summer trip across Canada from Victoria to PEI/New Brunswick/Nova Scotia (which ever is further east). My dad and brother rode motorcycles while my mom and cousins (and aunt and uncle) took a van. I alternated between the van my dad's bike. We met up with my cousins in Winnipeg so I was on a bike from Victoria to Winnipeg before I started alternating. That was a fun and memorable trip. Maybe in a couple years we can take the trip from here east on bikes. We have the bikes all we need is the time and the preparation. That would be a fun trip.