We are Ken and Coral Pearce from Vancouver, BC, Canada. We spent 8 years in Calgary until August 2016 (on top of an earlier two-year stint there). Also living in Calgary were our only son, daughter-in-law, and grandson—the reasons we stayed in that city for so long.

We were both raised in busy suburbs of Vancouver, and we raised our son in a similar environment. A business opportunity took us to Calgary for the first time, where our son stayed after finishing his post-secondary education. We returned to Vancouver to inner-city living on the water’s edge—a lifestyle we loved and tried to replicate in Calgary when work took us back there three years later, but that living situation was not easy to find in this sprawling, suburb-focused city.

Despite the strong family ties to Calgary and Vancouver, it was time to move on. We are two baby boomers who prefer to live a life less normal, and our life had become the opposite. For us, normal equals rut, and we needed to climb out.

This blog site captures our metamorphosis to a nomadic life and our Life: Phase Next experiences traveling and house sitting around the globe.