Early on Saturday morning, we said goodbye to our new house…


…and nine hours later, drove into Tilbury…

Four or five times a year, the drive between Ottawa and Tilbury becomes our Smyth family migration! Whether it be holidays, special occasions or too long between visits, the Smyth B&B is always a place of reprieve for Steve and I. Under the protective custody of our home away from home, we are given the opportunity to unplug from the electrically charged outlet that is our life and recharge our batteries. Sometimes I wonder how we would ever get through life without our weekends of homemade brownies and big family breakfasts.

This is the first time that our trip to Tilbury is actually just merely a fraction of our journey. Tomorrow afternoon, we head for Detroit for twenty-eights hours of flight time on our way to Sydney. Despite this obvious difference in destination, our time spent in Tilbury has still provided the very “recovery” that we need before such a venture…

For the past two days, I’ve slept twelve hours a night, sipped wine, laughed with family, indulged in home made cheesecake and taken a slight pause between having left two months of an extreme pace and the upcoming trip of a lifetime. With this little break in our life under our belt, I think that we’re officially ready for take off!

God Bless This Home!