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Auf dem Land

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I think my forearms are more pumped from my recent white knuckled driving adventure than my last climbing session. Windy farm roads where you must drive ever so slightly on the grass to allow oncoming cars to pass as they come whizzing by at 100 clicks. There’s 3 inches of “room” between cars, not much margin for error. For Wolf this feels spacious, for me I feel like I’d have more room driving in the shoulder of typical Canadian highways. It’s quite the rush and I’m nervous for my children’s lives. Regardless, I am a derby car chasing my husband down a tiny ass farm road so I don’t lose sight of our meeting point.   We are a pretty funny family when we go out… like we are the live version of a sitcom. All of the Kendler’s have FOMO. Wolf and I had suggested a hike last Sunday, his parents were coincidentally hiking and offered to join us. Of course Deja asks to invite her cousin Amelie along for the adventure. Then Wolf’s sister Alex gets wind of the plan and naturally, for ...
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Into the Unknown

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I feel like a crazy person. Packing the most important pieces of my life into little boxes…My wild day dreams about moving across the globe are now a reality, one that’s going to hit hard and sink in in two weeks time. In two weeks we will board our one way tickets to Austria and start a new chapter. I have to ask myself… what the F@&% was I thinking?  One of my favourite phrases is “Life is sweet, time is now”. I heard this for the first time from a crazy stoner when I was 20 years old on a deep water soloing trip in Mallorca. He had short bleach blonde dreads that stuck straight out of his head as though an electrical current was streaming through him. I had been observing him from a distance at the crag. He would attempt to pull onto some of the hardest lines in Cala Barques and proceed to flail SO hard that he managed to drench the first 5 meters of every climb he touched…he did this for several days. He was travelling alone and had set up camp beside me on the beach. I was...
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