I got from somebody and thought it might be interesting to many of us. It's true in Ottawa ......
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Greetings,
My family and I will be traveling the southern hemisphere for at least 7 months starting in mid September.
I would like to take this opportunity to mail you at work because I will soon be unable to contact you. My job at the company has been a wonderful experience over the last 12 years because of the exceptional people that I have had the good fortune to work with.
Job finished...check, house rented...check, tickets bought...check, children excited...check, Wife concerned...check
If you would like to be informed of some interesting human adventures, please take a moment to click the link below and enter your home or work email address in newsletter box at the left side.
Every month we will send out a quick text note and link to inform of updates to our web site. The web site will detail in graphic and pictorial detail the adventures we have while in the southern hemisphere.
The web site http://www.murison.ca/ is NOW OPEN.
The human interest themes of the web site will be:
Follow the husband and wife struggles to reach compromise between - risk vs. security - is less really more ? - financial suicide or fantastic planning ? - suffering vs. luxury. - adventure vs. the routine.
Find out how we charter a plane and survive being dropped off on an island 400 km from the coast of Australia and enjoy a week with solar powered laptops, lizards that weigh more than our 3 pre-teen kids and ants that are more vicious than the lizards. The worlds most aggressive poisonous snakes and the most deadly spiders are an added bonus. We hope to convince the plane company to parachute fresh supplies mid week. Cold beer in the middle of nowhere, I can't wait. We will be exploring the worlds best reefs and testing an electronic shark repellant device. In total we will be staying on 12 islands spread out over 1500 miles of the Great Barrier Reef and exploring the ocean with our inflatable boat and a 2 horse power motor. We need to be able to carry everything.
One island has pure wild Dingos that hunt in packs. Apparently if the humans stay in packs as well, they leave you alone. It does give new meaning to the concept of watching your children though.
We will home school our 3 kids and keep the solar panels cooking to power our custom designed cooler, CD burner, laptops and lights and of coarse the mandatory serious sound system. Every few weeks we will hit an internet café and download all the school work, pictures and travel stories to our web site. I think a shower will be in order as well. Our kids school is even going to modify their curriculum to focus on Australia and the students will be following our adventure though the kids web site postings.
Kids can do anything. Our two girls are the youngest PADI licensed scuba divers;
our son has been swimming since he was two and doing shallow scuba diving since he was three. We are all going to learn how to surf on some of the biggest waves in the world. We will be doing horse back travel and learn to live off the land in the Outback.
We will be exploring the oldest forests in the world and volunteering as research assistants in a camp that has thousands of the largest bats in the world. It should be interesting to learn how to outsmart the crocs. I understand that as long as you take a different path each morning to get your water, they will not be waiting for you. Apparently they learn quickly.
When we swim close to shore we will need to wear "stinger suits", which are like nylon stockings that cover the entire body. Unlike the jelly-fish in Florida that hurt if you touch them, the stingers in Australia kill you.
We will have lots of time to enjoy paradise and the people we meet along the way. We will be putting a lot of time and effort into obtaining and publishing the content for our web site, so please let us share our adventures with you by signing up for the monthly email.
Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone that you think would be interested in hearing about a family's "adventure of a lifetime".
Cheers,
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Greetings,
My family and I will be traveling the southern hemisphere for at least 7 months starting in mid September.
I would like to take this opportunity to mail you at work because I will soon be unable to contact you. My job at the company has been a wonderful experience over the last 12 years because of the exceptional people that I have had the good fortune to work with.
Job finished...check, house rented...check, tickets bought...check, children excited...check, Wife concerned...check
If you would like to be informed of some interesting human adventures, please take a moment to click the link below and enter your home or work email address in newsletter box at the left side.
Every month we will send out a quick text note and link to inform of updates to our web site. The web site will detail in graphic and pictorial detail the adventures we have while in the southern hemisphere.
The web site http://www.murison.ca/ is NOW OPEN.
The human interest themes of the web site will be:
Follow the husband and wife struggles to reach compromise between - risk vs. security - is less really more ? - financial suicide or fantastic planning ? - suffering vs. luxury. - adventure vs. the routine.
Find out how we charter a plane and survive being dropped off on an island 400 km from the coast of Australia and enjoy a week with solar powered laptops, lizards that weigh more than our 3 pre-teen kids and ants that are more vicious than the lizards. The worlds most aggressive poisonous snakes and the most deadly spiders are an added bonus. We hope to convince the plane company to parachute fresh supplies mid week. Cold beer in the middle of nowhere, I can't wait. We will be exploring the worlds best reefs and testing an electronic shark repellant device. In total we will be staying on 12 islands spread out over 1500 miles of the Great Barrier Reef and exploring the ocean with our inflatable boat and a 2 horse power motor. We need to be able to carry everything.
One island has pure wild Dingos that hunt in packs. Apparently if the humans stay in packs as well, they leave you alone. It does give new meaning to the concept of watching your children though.
We will home school our 3 kids and keep the solar panels cooking to power our custom designed cooler, CD burner, laptops and lights and of coarse the mandatory serious sound system. Every few weeks we will hit an internet café and download all the school work, pictures and travel stories to our web site. I think a shower will be in order as well. Our kids school is even going to modify their curriculum to focus on Australia and the students will be following our adventure though the kids web site postings.
Kids can do anything. Our two girls are the youngest PADI licensed scuba divers;
our son has been swimming since he was two and doing shallow scuba diving since he was three. We are all going to learn how to surf on some of the biggest waves in the world. We will be doing horse back travel and learn to live off the land in the Outback.
We will be exploring the oldest forests in the world and volunteering as research assistants in a camp that has thousands of the largest bats in the world. It should be interesting to learn how to outsmart the crocs. I understand that as long as you take a different path each morning to get your water, they will not be waiting for you. Apparently they learn quickly.
When we swim close to shore we will need to wear "stinger suits", which are like nylon stockings that cover the entire body. Unlike the jelly-fish in Florida that hurt if you touch them, the stingers in Australia kill you.
We will have lots of time to enjoy paradise and the people we meet along the way. We will be putting a lot of time and effort into obtaining and publishing the content for our web site, so please let us share our adventures with you by signing up for the monthly email.
Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone that you think would be interested in hearing about a family's "adventure of a lifetime".
Cheers,
