What Winnie taught us about patience

     

Our sabbatical roadtrip from east to west in Canada is well underway, and as with any good travel journey, I already learned quite a bit about being flexible and being patient. For instance, prior to our journey, I thought that purchasing a motorhome in Canada would look like this: but, the reality was more like this: So, since we had to wait an indeterminent amount of time for our Motorhome to pass his Motor Vehicle Inspection, we helped out at various organic farms for room and board – from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick.

The pudding is in the planning

     

So, the time has finally arrived and the preparation for our year long sabbatical is in full swing. To help give you a feel for what this looks like, I figured I could list off some of the things we had to do and how long it took. Duration: many hours, Search for a suitable Motorhome on Kijiji and close the deal! We ended up with this fine beauty (his name is Randy Vandy) Duration: 30 minutes, Sketch a rough plan (or as the Enterprise Architects among us would say, a “To Be” model) of where the journey will take us.

My current writing process

     

I’m curious to see how my writing process will evolve over time, so I decided to write this post to capture a snapshot of my current writing process. Step 1 Flesh out the sections using Org mode headings. Step 2 Fill in sections using bullet points, which contain the general gist of what I want to say. Step 3 Elaborate on these bullet points by figuratively barfing on the page with the hopes that whatever comes out resembles a well structured, english sentence.