by alex | Aug 21, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 94 – Monday, August 21st, 1995 Once again, Jesse and I are up early and ready to resume the hectic pace that has become our lives over the summer. By 7:30 the road crew gets us to Greenhills Golf Course where we finished on Saturday. The morning hosts from FM96...
by alex | Aug 20, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 93 – Sunday, August 20th, 1995 I feel like there is something wrong. When I woke up there was no road crew. No getting Jesse into his road outfit and into his wheelchair. No rush through breakfast to meet reach our start point, meet our police escort and begin...
by alex | Aug 19, 2020 | John's Blog
This is the first time in 95 days that Jesse and I have been able to sleep at home in our own beds. For the next three nights we will be sleeping here, before pushing east toward Toronto. But this morning, it’s back to work. Jesse continues to amaze me at how willing...
by alex | Aug 19, 2020 | John's Blog
25-years-ago this month, my son Jesse and I had been on the road for almost 100 days as I pushed him across Ontario in his wheelchair. We began our journey at the Ontario/Manitoba border on a snowy Saturday morning in May of 1995. We had no money. What we did have was...
by alex | Apr 7, 2020 | John's Blog
If we can’t hug or kiss family, friends and neighbours — let’s make sure our smile is carrying that message. This is just one in a series of messages I have been posting. If you’d like to follow along, I encourage you to subscribe to my social media accounts:...
by alex | Jan 20, 2020 | John's Blog
Here I am and it’s my 74th birthday. This is the only day in my life I will ever be able to note the day and year as 20 2020. If I post this at 8:20 in the evening, which is 20:20 military time, then I guess it will read 20:20 20 2020. So, now in my mid 70’s I and...
by alex | Jan 21, 2019 | John's Blog
And suddenly, all too soon, this part of my life’s journey was over. It had been 286 days since I looked out at the Atlantic Ocean in Newfoundland and asked myself, “How far are you willing to go for someone you love?” Both the sky and the water were slate grey when...
by alex | Jan 16, 2019 | John's Blog
20-years-ago this week, I ran out of mainland Canada. It happened at Horse Shoe Bay in West Vancouver with the towering Coast Mountains as the backdrop to the B.C. ferry terminal, where we would make the crossing to Vancouver Island. It was funny. I just walked across...
by alex | Jan 10, 2019 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today I ended my day in Mission, British Columbia, on the north bank of the Fraser River, 80 kilometres east of Vancouver. We are down and out of the mountains after an incredible week of contrasts, as the road portion of this life journey is nearing its...
by alex | Jan 2, 2019 | John's Blog
20-years-ago today, I finished my day in Keremeos, a little town of 1500 people in the Similkameen valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Before leaving Penticton where we marked New Years, Bevin Palmateer drove me back to Kelowna to do an interview on...
