The first post!

Hi Everyone!! Welcome to my travel blog! I hope to use this blog every time I travel so that I can record and share my experiences with you, my adoring fans, teeheee. FOR, as someone quoted to me recently, and it turned out to be from the excellent film "Into the wild", Happiness is only real when shared.

Now, first things first: my apologies for taking so long. Well, I'm not really sorry, but you get my apologies anyways cause that's what we Canadians do so well. I am officially 32 days - just over one month - into my trip; thats one third of my total trip and I'm only starting my blog now. To be honest, I was just going to scrap the idea altogether, but I have a fellow traveler named Kieran to thank for motivating me to actually put finger to keyboard and start the damn thing. And even then, its been a week since our conversation! Ah well. Such is life.

Still I had a choice: start from today as if those 4 weeks never happened, or try to go back and recapture the more interesting details of that time for posterity's sake? Against my better judgement, I am going to do the latter. So bear with me, and trust me, I will get to my current farming life soon enough.

So! Enjoy! Feel free to comment. Things like "I hate you, its freezing here" and "I'm so jealous!" are great, they help me keep perspective. Or also "Holy cow, you are long winded, be more concise!" works fine too, one can always use a little constructive criticism as one learns to blog. Finally, "Claire, we love you and miss you, please come home!" is best of all, since I do miss you all terribly, and a little virtual love and hugs never hurt anyone.

Hugs and kisses to all. Keep your stick on the ice.