Authentically Faithful: To close the loop

When we were about to move to Victoria we decided that we would do our best to do the "tourist-y" things. All the things that we didn't do in Kelowna.

Did you know we lived in Kelowna for 23 years and never did a single winery tour? We never went to a museum or art gallery...together? We never hiked to Paul's Tomb or hiked Knox Mountain?

Moving here it was a priority to spend time together and enjoy the Island and all it has to offer. We have been busy.

This year we have done the "tourist in your own town". We just last weekend biked around Swan Lake and then biked out the Galloping Goose to the Lochside Trail to Blenkinsop Lake. A 17.5 km round trip.

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After:

Today, we went to the Kinsol Trestle. We went to see the spectacular sights, and then we ended up finding a trail. It said it was a "technical trail 1000m" We decided to take it and see where it would lead us. Somehow in my head it had to be a loop trail. We got to the end of it and it hooked up to a ATV trail, heading back toward the trestle. We checked our map a couple times, realizing we were headed back the way we needed to go--and kept walking. We joked a couple times that the trail had better not go left or we could end up in Duncan....we would come around a corner and then the trail would go left-- we were wanting to go right.

Eventually we wound our way around the ATV trail back to the trestle trail, across the trestle again and back to our car.

I kept telling Kent, when we were biking last weekend around Swan Lake, I needed to close the loop. Today, the same thing, I needed to close the loop. It just feels completed.

I told Kent today while we were walking that last weekend and this weekend while we were doing our "tourist-y" things that our time here feels as though it's coming to an end. I don't feel sad about that thought the way I did when we were getting ready to leave Kelowna.

It feels good. It feels "comfortable" of sorts. It feels completed. I am not sure what our future holds--God knows.

Kent has been continuing his look for work, we've seen some amazing jobs, Kent has applied for jobs from Victoria and Sidney all the way across Canada to St. John's Newfoundland...and everything (literally) in between--Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Mississauga, Kingston, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, the list goes on and on. So far there is no sheep farming in Scotland on the horizon, but a girl can hope!

Kinsol Trestle: