Thankfully tonight I remembered to close the sun-roof on my car and that the seat will not be damp when I go to get in it tomorrow morning to drive to work like it was this morning and probably should have been the day before that when it was again left open during a downpour. The weather is a joke this summer except for a few days here and there but pretty soon that will not be of any relevance to me. For sitting beside me right now is my passport and stamped into the passport is my permanent residency visa for Canada which I acquired just a week ago officially. With that all in place the only thing left to do now to rubber stamp it all is to book the flights and that is the plan tonight. That then officially engages the journey west, into the known in my case, or maybe in certain cases the unknown and the start of this blog. Before I get on with it all, maybe I should give a little background as to why I am doing what I am doing though I suspect everyone knows that by now, but what the hell. . . . MORE »