Into the Wild

This was our last week farming for a while (well, until the 31st August when we hope to start another Workaway planned at a small farm near Whistler). Tomorrow we will be heading out into into the wild! Instead of staying on a bus, we will be staying in our car. Or maybe in a tent if we manage to find a cheap second-hand one.

Following the build last week, we added some nuts to the ends of our “drop pins” which have made the bed much sturdier. We’ve neglected to take many pictures of the finished project again… and now we are rushing to write this so we can pack our stuff and enjoy a BBQ dinner with our hosts! Here are a couple of shots with our $3 duvet as an extra cushion layer.

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We’ve bought sleeping mats, cooking equipment, a water filtration device, a power inverter to charge our laptops from the car battery and an emergency jump start kit for when we drain the car battery by charging our laptops from it. Rosie has made magnetic curtains to fix to the windows (well, half of them are finished at least). Tomorrow we will pick up some sleeping bags and buy a few more necessary items before dropping off our winter tyres into storage and finding somewhere to camp!

We’ve had the most wonderful time at our adopted home for the last two months. Our hosts have been a pleasure to work for and so generous with their knowledge, time and vegetables. We are going to miss them a lot and hope to return to visit next year. We’ve learnt a lot about growing vegetables. It’s very strange to think back to our tiny raised beds in Baldock and how proud Rosie was of her few courgettes!

Having spent nearly 100% of our time in Canada on Workaway placements, the next few weeks are like a holiday for us (even though we feel like we’ve basically been on holiday since February…) We will be hiking up mountains and looking at lakes, waterfalls and wildlife. We don’t plan to visit many large towns or cities, so hopefully we won’t notice any global pandemics that might be happening. Internet will be limited for a while, unless we can get some Starbucks wifi from a few car parks. Ollie’s phone is still operational, so we will try to update the blog next week from that.

We hope you are all doing well and enjoying the heatwave in England, it’s going to be roasting here this weekend too.