Since We Have Been Home...

April 2, 2008

Back to work…back to school….Since we have returned home life has been a whirlwind! It is all good, don’t get us wrong. This will be a final blog to let us share our transition back into regular life. We are hesitant to say “real” life because our life on the road was very real, but hardly traditional.

Since we have been back one or all of us have been lucky even to …
· Visit with friends until 2:00 am
· Visit grandparents and great grandparents
· Attend a Martina McBride concert
· Attend a family dance at Leedale
· Attend a Ducks Unlimited Supper
· Go to a movie with a cousin
· Attend a dance at Last West with Grannie
· Attend a dance at the Jr. High
· Stay up all night at friends’ house after dance.
· Meet with Home School Coordinator
· Register and visit Elementary and Jr. High Schools
· Visit at friends houses
· Have a Dr. Appt.
· Sleepover at friends houses
· Enjoy Easter meals with family and friends in Alberta and Saskatchewan
· Get a job in Lacombe teaching grade three
· Get a job with TRICAN (again) – working out of Red Deer
· Play multiple games of street hockey
· Order more correspondence courses
· Attend two Peewee hockey games
· Travel to Saskatchewan…renovate and sell a house (four days…15 hours of sleep…yawn)
· View 12-15 houses for sale in Rimbey
· Purchase a house in Rimbey…yah!
· Enjoy many suppers with family and friends
· Get a haircut
· Get a tooth re-cemented (yikes)
· Travel to Calgary to work with (visit) the TRICAN guys for a week
· Get groceries, visits friends, walk the dog…live life
It is soooo very good to be home! Thank you so much for being part of our journey. We are busy and happy and would absolutely do it again!
Love,
The Hohn's


This is Kassidy, I think this trip has had a great affect on the Hohns; I hopefully will remember it all. We all know there was some rough times like when we went to the Terry Fox memorial site in the picture if you look closely none of us our smiling! But we got through it all, all the scorpions, tarantulas, alligators, and man eating flies (they bite like mosquitoes!) I hope you enjoyed reading my mothers blog, we’ll miss having people read what we type but it had to end sooner or later. This trip has made a scar on my heart and made me think to…………………………………………………………….. NEVER LIVE IN A 27FOOT TRAILER FOR 7 MONTHS WITH 5 PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!! But we made good space of our trailer if we didn’t have the storage my dad put in our trailer would be full to the top! So thanks to my dad! Also thanks to both my parents for making us go on this crazy great trip, thanks to my siblings Ryley and Triana for making the best of this trip, thanks to all of those who gave up their time to come see us, and one last thanks to all of you who read our blog I hope you learned some more about the world and the Hohn Family! Because of our trip when I get older I want to explore the whole planet! So I’m looking forward to it! I hopefully can stop blabbering about our trip and get back to real life.
Love, From: Kassidy

BC Pictures

Wade, Carol, and Courtney were great hosts. We really enjoyed

visiting with them...and their cats

The view as we entered Kamloops...notice how little snow there is here?
Travelling near Kicking Horse Pass. The roads we really good to travel on- considering it is winter time.
W-O-W....lots of snow!
We enjoyed seeing the frozen waterfalls that form along the side of the highway.

On Our Way

Looking across the Fraser River near Fort Langley, BC
Crossing back into the great province of Alberta
Look at all the S-N-O-W!
A beautiful view near Big Horn Dam...we have seen it

many times, but it still is a terrific sight!
Indeed, a very welcoming community.

Nadine and Jeff ( the parents of the cute kids). Happy Birthday to you both.
Jeff...your birthday week is OVER- let it go buddy!
Here I am working to get on Amelia's good side-reading several (hundred) books did the trick.
The "wild" side of the Josh-Man! It only took one bowl of jello to get him going.
The Hohn's "strike a pose" on the river beach near Fort Langley, BC

Various Photos

A view of our soggy campground in Oregon.
Looking back to Oregon as we pass into Washington.
The moment we crossed back into Canada...the picture is not great quality, but the smiles are top notch!
Meet Mr. Josh - our cute nephew...he is is the man! We enjoyed spending some time with him and his cute little sister (ya...spending time with their parents was pretty good too).
Miss Amelia, our adorable little neice. It took a while for her to warm up to us, but it was worth the wait!

Into Alberta

Sunday, March 09, 2008

We just past the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway near Revelstoke, BC…passing Miniatureland…and heading toward the Enchanted Forest. Triana is wondering if we can stop….too bad it is closed this time of year, besides we are too excited to get home to stop! Sorry Triana-the fun part of the trip is over honey. The journey (so far) through the mountains has been good. Last night we reached the summit of the Coquihalla HWY ~ W-O-W is there ever A LOT of snow there. The road conditions have been very good and the temperature reasonable given the time of year…it did get down to 12 degrees in our trailer last night when the battery went dead….burrrrr.

The past few days in Langley and Abottsford have been nice – yet kind of sad for us. It has been very, very nice to be back in Canada (even though fuel and everything else is more expensive) and it has been great to visit family, but it means the end of our journey. As much as we have been looking forward to being “home”, it seems surreal that the adventure is complete. As parents, (beware this is mushy part) we are so very proud of our kids and how well they have embraced the experience of being with their parents 24/7 for the past 7 months! We will always absolutely treasure the memories and closeness that this trip has afforded us. The bond we share goes beyond the locations that we visited and really centers around the opportunity to spend almost every day to day moment together talking, laughing, nagging, arguing, learning, exploring and just being together. We know how fortunate we are and we want to thank our kids for the wonderful memories of a lifetime.

p.s. Jay just mentioned to me that he is going to switch his shoes the next time we stop as he is noticing and I quote “it doesn’t seem like Croc weather anyone”---ya think???

p.s.s A special thank you to Jeff and Nadine (Darla’s sister) and Wade (Jay’s cousin) and Carol for hosting us the past few days. We enjoyed visiting with you, your kids, and cats so much. Congratulations to Wade and Carol’s daughter, Courtney, on her recent engagement to Anthony (who by-the-way has an AWESOME truck for sale- call us…we have pictures). Hello to Danna (their other daughter- who is away at school in Kamloops…did you see us wave when we drove by?) A big Happy Birthday Jeff (today) and Nadine on the 27th…no more singing, we promise. Hugs and Kisses to the Josh Man and Miss Amelia---we miss you already!!

Kassidy's Poem

North American Tour
By Kassidy Hohn

N eighbors and friends say goodbye,
O ur loving family cried and cried,
R yley even shed a tear,
T hat crazy trip is finally here,
H ow can it be here so fast?

A mazingly, the trip days are coming to its last,
M om’s going to pee her pants,
E veryone’s pants have ants!
R imbey is one great town,
I ce and snow won’t knock us down!
C an we make it no one knows?
A lso we hope the roads aren’t closed.
N ow were coming home,

T ours over kids, now run on home,
O n our trip we’ve seen eews and awws,
U ntil we fell in the Wizard of Oz,
R eally now were on our way!