Essentially. today is all about getting ready to drive to Vancouver tomorrow. Simon (angel) is cleaning the car for me more thoroughly than I have ever cleaned a car in my life. I might be afraid to sit in it and get it dirty.

We have new brakes – the tires are winter just in case – and it’s filled with gas.

I baked bread this morning and did the laundry and updated my Garmin GPS, which took five hours because I haven’t downloaded new maps in five years at least. Must be a lot of new roads in the world!

And after lunch I took the dogs for a walk on Lower Butter. Except for the odd patch, the trails were snow free – and, what’s really important here: the sun was shining and it was so warm I didn’t need a jacket!

And that felt so good.

Time to pack.