My late aunt, whom I considered my second mom, finally agreed to travel back to Canada a year before she was diagnosed with a serious illness (and sadly, she passed away the following year). Her very first trip to Canada was with me, many years ago, when I was still living in Manila. We visited my other aunt in Vancouver and did a side trip to Portland, Oregon that time. It took almost a decade, long after I had moved to Canada for good, to persuade her to travel again (She w