Welcome everyone.
We're getting out. Jennifer, Clint and Maia Porritt have officially hit the road and this is a travel-blog of our family's escape from the big city.
Many of you have asked what’s next in our lives—the answer to which is “currently nothing”. Lately we’ve reflected on how our busy and cluttered lives have been at odds with the way of Jesus—too many distractions and way too much stuff. Therefore, we are planning to take a much needed rest from the busyness of life-in-general.
For an undetermined amount of time we are unplugging our lives here in Edmonton and taking to the open road for a period of Sabbath. We’ve sold our home, paid off our debts and re-tired the van. We plan to meander like hippies across Canada—first east, then west—stopping to site-see and people-watch, to camp in many beautiful places and to catch-up with scattered friends and family along the route. We are not leaving Edmonton permanently—at some point, perhaps in the fall, we will return to Edmonton and prepare for whatever adventure God has next in store for us. Until then, we’ll rest.
We expect that approximately half of you may think we’re completely crazy, while perhaps the other half will be almost convinced that maybe you too need a Sabbath. Whatever you’re thinking on the matter we are confident that your thoughts and prayers will go with us wherever we may wander.
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Tuesday, June 17th
We’re camped on the east coast of P.E.I. for a couple of nights, just a few minutes from the tourist trap of Cavendish, home to everything Lucy Maud Montgomery and setting to her world famous Anne of Green Gables books. This town has over 250,000 tourists pass through each year—almost twice the population of the entire province! Maia and I spent some quality father-daughter time together at the beach while Jen relaxes at the campsite. Later in the day, we brave a walk through the Green Gables historic site, rubbing shoulders with groups of tourists from all over the world.
The real news is that Clint has accepted a full-time position to teach at Mount Carmel Bible School in Edmonton this fall. It’s a new challenge we’re excited about and hope you are too. We’re looking to rent in Edmonton for a short 2-5 month period or possibly buy a fixer-upper home in NE Edmonton. If you have any leads in that regard, we’d be happy to hear from you.
