Adventure before before dementia

HAVING retired and downsized, the next step was travel. Following the Aussie mantra, ‘Adventure before Dementia’, the idea to travel around the world was hatched. Liz made it perfectly clear that it would only happen if there was a high level of comfort, hence the decision to tow a caravan.

A plan of sorts was agreed: to roughly follow the Pan American Highway south starting in Canada, going around Central America by ship given some of the challenges it poses – after all this is a retirement trip not an expedition – before ending up in Ushuaia, Argentina. From there we’d go by boat to South Africa and travel up to East Africa and then on to Australia and New Zealand.

In May 2016 we shipped to Halifax, Nova Scotia; the Discovery and caravan went by Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) ship and we flew with our 20-year-old cat (who travelled as hand baggage