EDITORIAL
Last November, we needed to take stock of our adventure, our feelings and our future.
Everything is still a little blurry today, so strong was what we experienced...
This feeling, these emotions, that the road, that the journey brings us are much larger than we imagined.
After a year a little strange, here we are again with Popo for 2 months now, we mop.
"The following "? It is emerging day by day. Nourished by desires and dreams...
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The short text that follows was therefore written more than a year ago, when we had just “returned” to France and this blog was already ready to be put online, but we were perhaps a little depressed for that.
So welcome to our little space! Because you understood, the adventure continues!
In July 2015, we finally dared to leave for good, to leave our comfort, our daily life for something more exciting and scary: the unknown.
The unknown of a continent that we knew very little.
The unknown of a daily proximity in a rather restricted space, 3m2 is the interior of the van.
The unknown of a journey of 78000kms, totally improvised and which lasted 1 year and a half.
The Unknown could be called Adventure and what an Adventure!
A start on the hats of wheels not to say exhausting, a departure became a necessity, the beginning of everything.
One continent, North America, two countries, Canada, and the United States, and how many different regions could be in themselves as many countries, as the differences and experiences were important.
Montreal was the first step.
A reassuring step, we speak the same language. Between tourism and search of the perfect racing car, we were quite busy, the second became a real journey we found ourselves on the roads of Quebec in July 2015, 15 days after our arrival.
We absolutely wanted a combi, in other words the perfect vehicle for us because we know it well, and moreover in the spirit of 100 % “hippie and roadtrip”. We finally found our happiness with a 1984 T3 model in good condition and above all without rust. A miracle in Canada!
To leave with an old van is also some galleys, you imagine well!
Especially that in our case, buying it locally, we had no place or tool to retype. Immediately in our possession, immediately on the road!
We had almost all possible and unimaginable failures, but never get stuck.
Eastern Canada has allowed us to find our brands in our new home, but also to learn new codes specific to this nomadic life.
We discovered one country, then another and all facets of each, both their cultures and landscapes from east to west, from north to south, accumulating miles to miss nothing, at least as little as possible.
We have tasted every day simple pleasures and we have not cost anything, that are, light a fire, listen to silence, contemplate the sunrise and sunset.
We learned about ourselves together, about each one, about life, about the life we no longer wanted and the life we wanted.
Yet this life is not always obvious. The euphoria of the unknown sometimes knows its limits. Sleeping at a different place every night is exhilarating but can be as scary as toilet exercise can be a painful time ...
We have to deal with the weather, breakdowns in the middle of nothing, a different language, wild animals ... It's a challenge that can be tiring and difficult, with which we have to evolve every day but a lot of experience that has made us grow and push our limits.
Live on the road to something inexplicable. A taste of freedom that is understandable only if one lives it and to which one becomes addicted. A sensation of all possibilities, where time belongs to us and at the same time runs at full speed. Get drunk permanently new landscapes, wild places and far from everything, feel the wind, cold, heat, ... the road is alive and makes us feel alive.
A freedom that we do not want to let go, gone but never returned this is all our problem now, looking forward to find out more ...
A desire to leave stronger than the one to stay and a sentence with even more sense today than yesterday:
"To stay is to exist, to live is to live"
Gustave Nadaud
If you want to know a little more read this ...
Very nice blog !! The adventure of a lifetime of yours! Looking forward to seeing future articles 🙂 long live your blog!
Thank you very much ! We were a bit long, don't blame us haha 🙂
Beautiful, very clear blog, simple and moving.All is said
I think a lot of people will be able to travel thanks to your stories and your photos !!
And for you, what enrichment!
Bravo
Thanks again ! Making you travel a little with us is really the idea of the blog, so we're happy that it's already working? All you have to do is continue then!
I asked you for the blog this summer, and here it is finally!! I'm delighted 😀
I loved reading these few lines about you and I can't wait to read your next journeys!!
We promised it, here it is, finally yes! Thank you for these kind words, it motivates us!
Hello, it's zozo, your photos are magnificent and make you dream. I can't wait to see you again and tell us live everything you've been through.
HUGE KISSES
Zoe 10 years
PS: I adore you and think highly of you!
Hello!
Thank you little cousin! We also think a lot about you 🙂
Big kisses and see you soon.
Thank you very much for sharing these moments, surely magic! Congratulations for achieving your dreams !!
Thank you very much it is with pleasure! We hope that this small space can help some and make others travel.
Superb blog, beautiful pictures and ... amazing adventure! Once you have tasted the road trip, hard to do without! We wish you the best of you and your popo for this new year which will be without any doubt full of (good?) Surprises. We are leaving very soon with ours in South America to make the trip in the opposite direction. Looking forward to seeing you on the roads, hasta luego!
Thank you so much ! We discover your journey at the same time. Obviously we are on the same wavelength 😉
South America, aaaah it's great! We are very likely to meet then...
Hello to you both!
I discover your blog, after falling (by a happy coincidence) on your beautiful photos on Instagram ...
A beautiful authenticity can be read in your words, it's just cool to see how happy you are to share your adventures & live them!
I really like this idea of enjoying the simple things that cost nothing: lighting a fire, listening to the silence… falling asleep under the stars, enjoying a sunset, feeling the breeze, hearing the rain fall… Here or Thousands of miles away, the world always has something to offer if you pay attention! The unknown is just waiting to be seized 🙂
And by the way, your van is super cool 🙂
Hello! Thank you for these beautiful compliments 🙂
To read your words and the sight of your photos on Instagram, we obviously share the same curiosity for what surrounds us!
Cuckoo both!
I have been following you closely (or from afar, from my living room) for more than a year now, and your adventure gives me a greater desire every day to travel through our dear world, and this, although beautifully represented through of your 'windows', motivates me daily to pursue my savings.
I really wanted to congratulate you on all these trips and stories that make me escape from our dear France, and that changes me from my Brestois landscapes. And yes you would say, another Breton!
In short, a big thank you to you, Etienne.
Hi Etienne!
Thank you for this beautiful message which motivates us to really launch this blog and share a little more our adventures 🙂
We wish you to realize your dreams of travel!
Joana & Eric
Waw incroyable expérience !!! merci pour nous avoir partagé votre voyage aux états-unis !!! Cela donne envie d’y aller !
Avec plaisir, depuis nous avons exploré l’Alaska, le Mexique et l’Amérique Centrale et nous sommes actuellement en Amérique du sud. Il y a tellement à voir sur notre belle planète ☺️