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Kind Drifters, Lansdowne, ON (2026)

08/02/2023

Charleston Lake Provincial Park
Lansdown, ON
July 2023

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08/02/2023

Charleston Lake Provincial Park
Lansdown, ON
July 2023

09/23/2022

We are so ecstatic about the opportunity to help out here on 🏝 (pssst go follow their page 😉)

What a beautiful sanctuary with beautiful people!! Penelope the Pig here was asking for belly rubs this morning (of course I obliged lol) and Sam the Sheep was very keen on getting his picture taken 🤣 Look at that face!!

But don’t go too far we have a lot more pictures to share of a lot more adorable animals!! 😍

08/20/2022

Hello again Instaworld!

With time passing, life happening and new followers, it’s time for an introduction post!

We are Kind Drifters, formerly known as CompassioNomads. We’re Liza/River + Kai and our dog friend Reidus, nomads with the aim to create a kinder world 💚

We sold our house 3 years ago and moved into a rebuilt motorhome named Unice with our 3 dogs, aiming to travel and live on the road, while helping other humans and animals along the way. Unfortunately, we soon found Unice was unsuitable for the places we needed to go so we found our used F150 and 19 foot travel trailer and headed south into the U.S.

We loved our life on the road, especially sharing it with two members of our dog family who have since passed. In 2020, as lockdowns and shelter in place orders set in, we returned to Canada’s west coast, eventually making our way back to the Ottawa area and family who gave us a welcome respite from the world.

It’s not been an easy couple of years but we’ve found our way back, this time with a much more modest rig. This means less comfort and convenience but way more flexibility and opportunities to get to places we never could have before. We live full time in our truck, although we mostly spend our time outdoors 💚 We watched videos of van and bus conversions for weeks but in the end, our budget only allowed for a cap and a tent for our truck, the majority of the build was with repurposed or donated items. Leave a comment if you’d be interested in seeing more about our custom camper 👇🏼😊

We’re currently staying on Vancouver Island and looking for opportunities to work with like minded (community focused) individuals or groups seeking mutual aid assistance in the form of volunteer actions and trading skills/resources.

Some of our skills include:
• animal grooming/reiki/care/behaviour skills
• auto, truck and RV diagnosis and repairs
• basic home repairs,
• online and computer skills
• vegan cooking and nutrition
• photography
• experience in free food distribution as well as animal sanctuary settings.

If you’d like to collaborate or have any questions, we’d love to hear from you in our DMs!

Stay tuned ✌🏼💚

03/03/2021

In the hurricane that has been our life since 2019, we’ve finally reached the eye of the storm...

To catch you up on life since the summer, We’ll keep it in bullet form:

🌲 After nearly 2 months of living fully off grid on our homestead we hit our (first) pandemic wall.

🏠 Burnt out, dejected and needing to be closer to our family, we moved back to Merrickville to weather the winter with Kai’s folks.

🧑🏼‍🔧 Kai launched a small mobile mechanic business that went viral locally and ended up on

🐕 Liza resumed grooming dogs but struggled having to go in folks’ homes during the pandemic.

🏳️‍⚧️ Kai was able to get the gender confirming top surgery they so desperately needed a couple of years sooner because we had support and are not currently living off grid.

🐾🌈 Emma Dog crossed the Rainbow bridge New Years Day after 15 and a half loving years with us 💔

🎨 Liza had the space during lockdown to let go of dog grooming and dive into and explore her art and up cycling.

♾ Kai discovered they are and their life has improved significantly now that we work WITH their neurodiversity rather than AGAINST it.

🏋️ Liza discovered their love of weight lifting and recruited some inspiring virtual workout friends and a fitness coach to become a total BADASS 💪🏼

💸 We decided to stay put here and sell our small homestead/sanctuary in Bonfield to reduce our debt and weather the pandemic.

🐀 In honour of our short-lived sanctuary, we adopted 3 rescue rattie girls called Daenerys, Arya and Brienne. So it looks like the sanctuary dream lives on, just in a different form for now...

🚐 We plan to sell Freeda, our trailer and possibly Unice while we work on converting a smaller rig for travel as soon as that’s an option again.

Ok. You’re caught up! It’s been a tumultuous time of joy and sadness, incredible self discoveries and tidal waves of grief. We know there will be a lot more change and growth coming but for now we’re ok to rest here and wait out the remainder of the storm. As much as having a home base is wonderful, nurturing and needed right now, our nomad hearts do yearn for the day we can adventure again...

07/31/2020

After a long hiatus, we are back online.

Everyone’s lives are looking different these days and ours is certainly no exception, although we have certainly been better off than so many others in these hard times. After our mad dash out of California to British Columbia back in March, we’ve been riding a roller coaster of limbo, forced into changing our plans again and again, hardly able to plan in advance because of the constant change. It’s been an emotional and spiritual roller coaster and there was some grieving to do. We loved our life on the road and had planned to continue to travel full time for as many years as we could.

In 2019, having no house to weigh us down, no property to pay tax on, no household bills to keep us slaves to our jobs, we had the most freedom we’d ever had, living with less, traveling where the wind took us, meeting incredible new friends, witnessing the breathtaking beauty of the North American landscape. By March 2020, shelter in place orders took effect, all parks and campgrounds shut down, it was illegal to stay overnight anywhere but at certain Walmarts and we were chased multiple times out of dark parking areas and rest stops for just trying to get some sleep, isolating in our trailer. It was time to go home. But we had no home. We had our home on wheels, but nowhere to legally park it.

After 3 months spent in limbo, staying first on Vancouver Island and then in North Bay with some wonderful friends who gave us a safe place to park when we had nowhere else to go, we knew it was time to change our course and accept our new direction in life. The world is currently a different place and it won’t be possible or wise for us to travel to the U.S this winter. We have found ourselves a tiny slice of heaven near Bonfield, On, a beautiful land to be guardians of, to homestead on and to be a sanctuary for all beings, great and small. We start building our off grid home in the Spring ❤️

As for our nomad side, Kai has plans to build a custom truck camper out of the back of for shorter trips in Canada and eventually to visit our friends in the U.S again (you know who you are).

Welcome to Higher Love Ahimsa Homestead. It feels so good to be home ❤️

Higher Love acknowledges that we are on the stolen lands and territory of the Anishinabewaki, Huron-Wendat and Algonquin peoples and pay tribute to their legacy and the legacy of all First Peoples of Canada, past, present and future.

06/02/2020

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It has been difficult to find the balance between not saying enough and saying too much because in all honesty, we (white privileged people) are not the voices that need to be heard right now. This is about listening to the outcries of a community whose peaceful protests were ignored and silenced because of a system that values complacency over human life.

It is the voices and pleas of our brown and black brothers and sisters who need the platforms, the mics, the stages right now. We are to follow them as they lead and stand in front of them only to protect them.

We are angry that our country is failing its citizens. We are angry that the systems meant to protect only protect some and endanger others. We are angry because of the fear BIPOC must experience day in and day out. We use that anger to fuel action.

Today marks the beginning of Pride Month. In the summer of 1969, pride was a riot - not a party. As today’s q***r people, we owe our rights to brown and black q***r and trans people who were willing to fight back against police raids at Stonewall - let’s never lose sight of that. And as today’s women, let’s never forget the effect the Abolitionist movement had on women’s suffrage; a reminder for those who march for feminism but seem to fall silent today. Stop reaping the benefits of what the black community laid the foundation for. Our paths are all intertwined.

It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. With the postponing of parades, celebrations, and events, we can return to what Pride is and always has been about - ACTIVISM. It was never about the celebrations - it has always been about the fight for civil rights. It is up to us to carry on the fight those before us started.

Sign the petitions.
Donate what you can.
Take the $ you’re not spending on pride events and put it into the pockets of black business owners.
Put in the work now so we have something to celebrate later.

06/02/2020

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PLEASE stop sharing black squares on your feed as it’s not beneficial right now. I understand and thank you for trying to solidarity during this time, and it’s great for those who don’t have the words for this moment to share. However it’s making this situation more difficult as it’s clogging the feed and blocking black voices and vital information that needs to be shared during this time. Also this isn’t what the black community needs, we want you to show up for us EVERY SINGLE DAY and not to shrink back behind a post. I know this season is overwhelming and it’s ok to take a rest, but DONT RETREAT and please read the next slides for more information 🖤🖤[ALSOOOOO: please just refrain from posting at all if it’s not correlated to local orgs or local gov initiatives, A LOT is moving and changing on local levels right now. Please either reshare or post content of things that are happening locally and that people need to hear]

05/18/2020

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I was under loved so I became Love. I was raised in darkness so I became Light. We are not the product of our environment, we are the reflection of our vibration.

05/17/2020

Home for the night 💤

It’s not always easy to find a place to stay the night these days. How do you avoid unnecessary travel when your home is on wheels? We’re grateful for any open rest stops or truck stops we can find when we’re nowhere near a city big enough for box store parking lots. This one happens to be directly across from 😍🏔 This was our backup plan when we found the Revelstoke Mountain Resort overnight RV parking barricaded off.

We sheltered in place on Vancouver Island for about 6 weeks but it was time to move on. We may not have a home to go back to, but at least we can get back to the province where our license plates are registered so we stop getting looks from people like we’re some morons out on a damn vacation.

Somewhat traumatized from yesterday’s off-road adventure, we played it safer today and found a gorgeous riverside trail right in town. It was great to stretch our legs and it is crazy beautiful here! I guess you could say we are 😂

@ Columbia River at Revelstoke BC

05/17/2020

We’ve dreamt of a cross Canada road trip for most of our lives. Never in a million years did we think we’d have to do it when camping is all but banned.
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Driving past gorgeous parks and recreation areas that we’d love to see but can’t can get disheartening. To keep upbeat, we listen to awesome podcasts (Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Vegan Author and Speaker, Rich Roll) and sing along to our favourite tunes. Once in a while, when we see an opportunity for a hike with the dogs, we’ll take it, as long as we can maintain physical distancing from others.

Feeling particularly flustered yesterday at flying by the scenery with no stopping planned until the Costco parking lot in Kamloops where we’d spend the night, we found a hiking trail that appeared open about half way on our route. So desperate were we to get out for a walk that we grit our teeth and drove on despite the narrowing, twisting and sometimes rubble strewn road. We passed a turn around point and I distinctly remember quenching the feeling in my gut that told me to turn around and driving on.

We almost made it, but 200 metres before the trailhead parking lot, there was snow. A lot of snow. Three feet of snow covered the road going onward as though someone had drawn a line in the road where it should begin. There was nowhere to turn around. An interlude of curse words followed. Somehow, when up sh*t creek without a paddle, we pull together and kick ass. We tried unhitching the truck to get a better angle before re-hitching but there just wasn’t enough room. So we backed out. Liza behind the rig calling out directions on speakerphone as Meg backed the truck and trailer through twists and turns, up and down hills all the way back to the turn around point.

It was a great reminder to always scout first, and that even when we get ourselves in a jam, we are pretty adept at getting ourselves out. And did we say how much we love our badass little truck ?

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