Around 80 years or so ago, my father and his brother hitchhiked, biked and rode train to Ontario.
The trip involved a failed border crossing into the United States, overnight stays with relatives and friends of family and friends.
The impetus for the trip in 1937 was to obtain work – on a relative’s farm. Their father’s farm (Kindersley, Saskatchewan) could not support both brothers in the midst of a depression peppered with no rain and little financial resources.
The adventure was a true adventure. Their venture took them into trials and testings, but also fun and family connections.
This was a formative trip. Throughout his life, my dad constantly had the view that “the best is yet to come.”
2021 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME