INTRODUCTION

Hiking in the Quantocks, Somerset England. 2015

My name is Lois Peterson and I live on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

I love the Great Outdoors, the Open Road, and self-sufficiency. For me, they all come together in the iconic VW camper van.

That's me on the right, in the mountains of Iraq when I was about five or six.

I finally got my very own, a present to myself - and indirectly from my mother whose bequest to me funded its purchase - for my 65th birthday in 2017.

When I am not out and about - and sometimes when I am - I'm a writer (check my website www.loispetersonwriter.ca if you wish), reader, hiker, mother, grandmother and novice sketcher. 

I enjoyed a couple of wonderful road trips during my marriage, and now I am single again I hope that solo trips, and some with my 7-year-old grandson and fellow explorer Cooper, will live up to those lovely long summer days in the Kootenays of British Columbia and here on Vancouver Island.

In the end she became more 
than what she had expected.
She became the journey,
and like all journeys,
she did not end.
She simply changed directions and kept going.
by R.M Drake