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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Wednesday, June 18th
It’s been a gloomy day and we’ve been reluctant to set up camp in the drizzle, so we travel. We pay our dues to once again cross over the Confederation bridge (over 40 bucks!)—unsuccessfully trying to outrun the rain by province hopping (PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia). We finally admit defeat in Halifax by checking into a dorm room at Dalhousie University. Thanks to some really loud students, this almost proves to be more “roughing it” than camping. After a bite at “My Father’s Moustache” (I kid you not), the girls head to the dorm, while I head to a nearby internet cafe for another overdue blog update.
