Back on Home Turf, in BC!

We almost jumped right out of Racy Verna when we saw BOTH our moms' faces in the crowd of welcomers at the Ferry dock, here in Victoria on Saturday! What a way to enter back onto home field, seeing a whole collection of our closest and most treasured family and friends.

It was a strange mix of emotions as we rode the final 20 minutes towards downtown Victoria. Crossing the border back to Canada represented so much and was rushing at us like memories from one’s youth, a collection of pictures running across our minds, remembering all we’d been through to reach this moment.

And then, like a shot from a cannon, we caught up to real time as we saw familiar faces in a familiar setting, all there to shower us with love and welcome us home!

Our posse was there in mass as we said tearful "how ya doing’s," and hugs were a bit larger than when we left from Vancouver almost a year earlier. It will be a scene in our lives never forgotten, and in the tour’s life, etched at the forefront of the most cherished. You cannot get any better than this: family and friends all there for you.

And for a guy who’s never short on words, I feel rather pathetic as I type (with my 2 finger style) to try and write words worth the feeling we had in those first moments. I guess it’s ok, as anyone reading this knows that special feeling of being wrapped in the arms of love and support. And we all know that feeling of seeing the smiling face of the one who gave you life, Mom!

Maybe that’s all that’s needed, as we are still processing a HUGE first weekend back to BC on this constantly amazing Run For One Planet journey.

Some highlights:

1. Running the Times 10 K as VIPs and called in by our great friend, Mr. Steve King!
2. Staying at the Harbour Towers Hotel and being welcomed into the Times 10 K by race director, Jacqui Sanderson!
3. Inserting Roberto Kelly (our tour’s video magician) into our on-the-road family!
4. Meeting Diane Shaskin (finally), owner of our most amazing food sponsor, Planet Organic at our final (hopefully not forever) presentation at her Victoria location!
5. Having our head aunt and uncle, Jane & Frank Lee, host an all-out, no-holds-barred Sunday BBQ at their abode, with that same posse + a few more, a collection of family and life-long friends to cap a brilliant start to our 12-day homecoming!

A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who was with us, whether in person, in spirit or in offered well-wishes as we ran back to BC! This tour is new again.