Journey continues for globetrotting family facing blindness

The journey of a lifetime continues for Edith Lemay, Sebastien Pelletier and their four children Mia, Leo, Colin and Laurent, who have been travelling the world to make as many “visual memories” before three of the kids lose their vision.

Since last March, their travels have taken them through Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania, Turkey, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia, while documenting their journey to over 100,000 followers on Instagram.

“(The children) love it. (They’ve) just been saying that they want to keep travelling forever,” Lemay told CTV’s Your Morning on Thursday.

Three of the four children — Mia, Colin and Laurent — have been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic condition that causes vision loss over time. The parents say deterioration of Mia, Colin and Laurent’s vision will probably speed up in their teen years,…