Sault-ste-Marie

September 21st, 2007 :

It started as any other day, but the house would no longer be ours, papers had all been signed on the Wednesday, the men with the big moving truck had packed all our boxes and belongings away on the Thursday, and here we where, Friday the 21st of September.

In Ontario, jobless and homeless.

The first hurdle of the day was that the garage door refused to work, as if the house was clinging onto us, I still had some fundamental tools for the journey, so after about 45 minutes of faffing about, everything was working again.

We had our coffee and muffins from Tim Hortons, packed the car up, granola bars, portable TV, litter box and laptop. A couple of mugs, some cutlery and a cooler or two with drinks and cat food.

The two cats, the boys, confused by a house with no contents were loaded in the car and in a flourish, the old house was gone and we were off up the road to Sault-Ste-Marie.

It was 11.00 am.

The first hour or so of driving was difficult, the cats did not know what was going on, had little panic attacks and hyper ventilation moments, and then we all settled into an uncomfortable groove.

Sault-Ste-Marie, light was fading as we rolled into the motel car park, unloaded the cats and very quickly washed our hands of everything by finding the nearest pub.

It was going to be an interesting five days.