Challenge accepted!

I have two big passions in life: sports and travels. Since I’ve been old enough to drive my own car, I’ve been able to mix these two passions.

Back when I was in College, I started to travel all around the province of Quebec to follow my favorite junior hockey team. Then, once in adulthood, with more generous budget – OK, let’s say it, with a credit card! – my friends and I started to visit the East Coast of the States. Starting out with the hockey games, we added football games, baseball, basketball and, why not, shows of our favorite artists.

With time, these trips have become needs, or daire I say it, obsessions for myself. As much as I loved the events themselves, I adore the preparation, the drive or the flight leading to it.

At first, my goal was to visit 30 professional stadiums/arenas before my 30th birthday. I’ve now reached these two milestones (damn I’m old – 31…) and the 30 stadiums have been checked on my to do list a very long time ago.

Forty before 40 years old? Too late, the first one is already completed. So should I say 50 before 50? Like would say Barney Stinson from the famous show How I met your mother woud say : «Challenge accepted».

But until then, I thought it would be interesting to share all of these experiences with you guys. Because I have to admit that I have third strong passion : writing. It is what I do for a living.

In my upcoming blogs, I will describe the atmosphere in the stadiums and share anecdotes – so many things are happening to me when I’m traveling, it’s almost surreal! – will propose places to visit, where to eat, to shop, etc.

This may give you ideas, but it will allow myself be to keep all of my memories in one place. Nonetheless, I’ll have proofs to convince my future grand kids that their grandma was actually pretty cool “back in the days”!

So this is it. Are you ready to travel with me?