Hey Sadie,
Also, a lot of people ask me what you think of my trip and every time I say I don’t know truthfully, I then add I think she’s just waiting to see … what do you think Sadie? Also I just wanted to mention how difficult it is to type on this little mini-laptop, but really to say
I only know what this journey is as a necessity for me …. a wandering sort of thing, and also the timing is just right for exploration.
Dadoo,
I think it’s absolutely wonderful.
I love the idea of setting of on an adventure without really a plan, and kind of letting go, and starting new.
Sometimes, I want to do that, and I think the feeling of all your worries and stress just blowing away is so great.
Now, you can do what you want to do, whatever that is. And, you can create a new life, like a computer game, you get to decide who you want to be, and what decisions you want to make about your life.
You can be whoever you want to be.
Isn’t that refreshing?
You can decide who Markus Wade really is.
But, I’ll love him whoever he choses to be. 
XoXo Sadie
Wow, thanks for youthful wisdom Sadie, and your confidence. I’m going to include your quote with the beginning of my journey at FTG so I can re-read it every time. What are you doing for the long weekend? I’m heading back to Toronto today, and then finishing up the last of the details. I think I’ll be staying at Chris and Wispy’s for the first two weeks of June while I wait for Scott to make it out east. I don’t have to be out of the house until June 1st so I’ll be there until then.
Love Dadoo xo
So …. to all the people that have been here before you can see that I went against my plan, typical, of entering in order of creation, (ie: the first/oldest post appears first and the later follow). However for the upcoming journey I decided to keep it in real time, and therefore one can follow along in sequence, hopefully making it less confusing. But don’t worry, when I return I’m going to put it all back to the original order so that is even more confusing again. For those of you visiting for the first time, this is my blog FlibberTGibbet, or FTG as I often refer to it as it’s a rather long seemingly senseless title, which is actually appropriate as Flibbertigibbit the word is defined as a frivolous, chatty person. I started this three years ago as a photo/journal with the help of my brother Adam, who is better known as the Visionraiser. So rather than say the same thing over and over again you can always go to the Categories section on the left of your screen and hit Chapter 1 to start from the beginning. But if you’d prefer, you can just follow this journey which involves two old friends and two motorcycles and a whole lot of world.
I’m starting this post entitled ‘A Prerequisite’ with this brief introduction: 1) sold the house
2) moved my personal belongins to my Mum and Wally’s house in Calgary
3) made plans
And here is Jim Struke at work; a really good man and even a better thinker/mechanic; here is his number if you want some work done, but not just done, he is real, and a true soul, but mostly a serious lover of life, bikes, people and cars, at least that’s how I perceive him and Pip the frisbee dog. Jim’s shop is located west of Toronto, near Kitchener/Waterloo, at his home, in a big shop, and he has known motorcycles his entire life including racing tons of races, winning so many I couldn’t take a picture of them all in one frame, and the greatest thing is his wife also too is a racer and lover, and a match made in heaven.
1 519-584-4094 Jim Struke
4) currently closing the house and finishing up with the sometimes exhausting amount of work/planning/preparation for a trip such as this as of course I’ve never done this before, though happily taking pictures along the way. Also, saying goodbye’s …..
This man if you can believe it is 94, and walks every day with his various military clothes.
The coolest barber shop in town …. College and Dovercourt. And good reasonable cuts. His name is Roger.
I’m sorry I didn’t get to see everyone before leaving, to be honest I tapped out, and ran out of time, too much talk and not enough gettin’ going. It’s a weird process preparing for something like this and I’ve learned a great deal already, one of which is probably going to be a direct parallel to traveling, you can’t do everything if you want to do something different. What did I just say? Never mind. What?
Just Suppose
Who knows what? And why does one know what? Why? Just because or just because. Do pictures on a wall yearn to be hung on a different wall? Why? Do pictures yearn? I don’t know. Why? Just because. Yes they yearn. Can’t you see? Yes why? Cause pictures speak, cry and laugh out loud, but do they yearn? Like lost souls placed some where when they are dead, illuminated just right, hung slightly off center, collecting dust in the corners of a picture that tells of a thousand stories, forever and ever just so? I don’t know. Just because I suppose. Just because? What about chairs, do they sit around and collect dust? What about couches, beds, tables and such? What about you? And what about me? Do you see too? Maybe, just because. Yes we agree but why? I don’t know.
The last supper in Toronto for a while …. courtesy of Christophe Boivin and his well known cooking talents. If you don’t already know and you find yourself in Toronto, then I strongly suggest having dinner at his restaurant called The Roxton.
Leaving Wright Avenue, just in front of my old house. Marc and Inara took the pictures. Big thanks to Joan across the street for allowing me to store my bike in her garage over the winter and for providing me with cool straps and netted bags.
