Long Way Round

I'm not sure if everyone has heard yet (although I’m guessing most have) but it looks as though Char and I are headed to Edmonton in January!! I’ve managed to land a job with EY in Edmonton that starts in mid January and having found out only last week we both can’t believe that our time here in the UK has almost ended. It’s been a little over 5 years now since we first arrived in the UK during which time we’ve lived in all of Oxford, Southampton, Eastleigh and now Aberdeen.

I was thinking just the other day how our journey in some ways feels like the one taken on the BBC TV series called Long Way Round. Maybe some of you saw it but it featured two Brits, Ewan Macgregor and his friend Charlie Boorman, starting from London on motorcycles and then making their way across the whole globe (apart from oceans!) through Europe, Asia, N America, ending in NYC and then flying back across the Atlantic to London. Although our journey to the UK wasn’t quite as adventurous, especially compared to the parts in the series where they travelled across the more remote places, ie Kazakhstan, Mongolia and the Road of Bones in Siberia, I still feel like our journey has been similar to theirs in some ways. I thought that after graduating from UofA things could have easily ended up that we stayed in Edmonton and enjoyed living there for the next little while. But overall, living in the UK has been a huge and welcome adventure for us. We’ve certainly had our stretches of good roads / bad roads, tough terrain and unfamiliar territory etc. But like Ewan and Charlie were when they got to the final stretch of the journey, we are also very glad now that we’re coming home, starting up where we were only a short time ago but with incredible journeys and a lot more adventure under our belts from being able to live here.