Adventure Blog

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” Lovelle Drachman

Durango, Mexico

Call me crazy, but quitting our jobs to do missions while traveling the world to spend time with our kids is the best decision we have ever made.  When we started off with this dream 16 years ago it looked nothing like what it does now. It's more incredible than we...

Welcome to Outreach

Welcome to Outreach

   It's amazing what can happen in such a short amount of time. These last eleven weeks on the ranch have proven to be a combination of some of the most wonderful and yet challenging moments we've ever experienced as a family. I look around at the other families...

Life on the Ranch

Life on the Ranch

A Living in community with others is one of the most wonderful and challenging experiences we have ever walked through. Barry and I both have spent 1-3 weeks, at different times in our marriage, living in community prior to our YWHAM experience, but never as a family...

What is one of the best traits to adopt if you want to travel, especially with kids? Flexibility! When traveling, things will not always go according to plan. In fact, they rarely do. Trains may be late, hostels may be booked up and well, life happens. We landed at...

Community is Key

Community is Key

  It’s one thing to leave a place where you have no roots, it’s another to leave a community where you feel grounded, seen and known. The last week in Calgary was a whirlwind for our entire family. We did everything possible to fit in as many hangs  for our kids...

Fort Louisbourg: A Trip Back in Time

Fort Louisbourg: A Trip Back in Time

Last summer, my family embarked on an unforgettable journey to the historic Fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. We were already on route to the beautiful province when our search for the “top ten things” to see in Nova Scotia revealed one of the world’s largest...

Bay of Fundy

Bay of Fundy

Our first two weeks in our airbnb in Miramichi proved to be an adventure of its own. Our fridge only came with one shelf, the washing machine kept breaking, and the floating shelves looked like they had given up fighting against gravity. We stacked our food in the...

A Dream Unfolds

A Dream Unfolds

It was the summer of 2022 when we decided to start pursuing our dream of traveling the world. Barry and I had spent 3 weeks at a retreat with Fatherheart Ministries when we felt the call to prepare for our "big adventure."  After waiting over a decade we were eager to...

In the Beginning

In the Beginning

I had taken the day off to take my friend Arlene skydiving. She would be doing a tandem jump while I, as a licensed skydiver, would be jumping solo. As the twin otter rose higher and higher conversations began to break out when I noticed a man with sparkling blue eyes...