I've started my adult life with a conscious decision that I'd start my travels by visiting things close to home; my own province and my own country. There's so

I've started my adult life with a conscious decision that I'd start my travels by visiting things close to home; my own province and my own country. There's so much beauty in Québec that most people don't know about: white sand beaches, breathtaking mountain ranges, quaint little villages, bustling downtowns, etc. At the height of the pandemic, we were in Tadoussac and my daughters were looking at a starfish in a tidal pool, and we heard someone say "I didn't know we had that in Québec". Since then, I've traveled a bit further, but always with "slow" transportation: First by car, but more recently on my sailboat. Last year we went to the Bahamas via Nova Scotia and the US East coast, and it only made me appreciate home even more. I never realized how much I loved winter until I skipped one! But yeah, picking a spot to live is an important step; one which I took at about 25. I'm now slowly realizing that all my interests (sailing, snowboarding) would probably be better served somewhere else, but I don't really want to start over. I live in a (very) small town where we all know each other, but it's very welcoming and there's a lot of "immigrants", so you don't have to have been born there to integrate.