Eight years, done.

Today was another happy day, a small celebration of eight full years retired, which happened at around 2.00pm Pacific time as it was clocking off time back in Ontario, eight years ago.

A nice meal at Gramma's Pub and a box of wine for tonight, all smiles around here and the plan is working better than expected, although to be fair, eight years ago, we did not really know what to expect.

On Thursday the 20th September 2007, the big moving truck arrived and was packed with all our belongings, then on the Friday, we packed up the bare bones into the Acura and set off on our epic journey across Canada on the Trans-Canada Highway.

Here's a last day photo at the landing gear emporium, the day of the great escape, the three amigos.

Graeme Wright, Doug Varley and Dave Weldon.