Travelling on public transportation with backpacks can be fun. No really. Laden with 50lb packs and a positive attitude, we boarded the bus-to-the-ferry-to-the-bus-to-the-bus to the Vancouver hostel. It was a 7 hour adventure in total, which we thought would be a good exercise in preparing us for navigating public transportation during future travels. All went [...]
Okay. Maybe the pendulum has swung for us and we want nothing to do with cities after having lived the city life for a while. Maybe we’ve been spoiled by Toronto, the largest city in Canada, with (arguably) the most to offer. Or maybe Victoria just isn’t all it’s cracked (pardon the pun – sorry [...]
Courtenay (on Victoria Island) is actually a place we could call home. After a few rainy days in Tofino we decided to make our way back towards the eastern side of Vancouver Island and homeward bound. After spending a night at Gary & Michelle’s home (Gary being a friend we just met on the ferry [...]
It started with a love-hate affair with KYC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). I so loved getting a big bucket of the greasy, deep-fried-with-southern-love chicken, the fries with peppery gravy that had an unidentifiable foreign taste to it; and the selection of plastic macaroni salad & bright (too bright if you know what I mean) green coleslaw. [...]
Ucluelet (pronounced yoo-cloo-lit…say that five times fast) was yet another unplanned locale for us. Our efforts were originally directed towards Tofino, which is the popular northern town on the western peninsula of Vancouver Island. However we had trouble finding available accommodations there, and in the spirit of “rolling with the punches” we decided to capitalize [...]
A picture taken from the summit of Mt Hays by Matt. Eagles playing in the sky. I’ve said it over and over to people, and now I’m truly seeing and realizing it: Canada has so much to offer. From one coast to the other, there is so much variety, and even great cultural differences everywhere. [...]
If somebody tells you “It’s worth its weight in gold to pay the extra cash for a cabin” – listen to them. The ferry ride from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy (on Vancouver Island) is a 20 hour adventure, taking passengers through the beautiful inside passage. Lush mountains covered in trees with white snow caps [...]
An impromptu stay for longer than expected in Prince Rupert certainly paid off in spades. “Jimmy The Janitor” was the first friendly face, stopping his busy rounds to chat with us about the town.“If you aren’t afraid of work, and you have a business you like, you’ll do well here,” he said in a thick [...]
Okay. So maybe I’ve been born and raised in a somewhat moose-deprived place (being Toronto), but really. All this talk of moose. They’re on the Canadian quarters. They’re intrinsically Canadian. They’re so bloody big that a mac truck can hit them, and they’ll limp away from the twisted metal wreck with not much more than [...]
Kelly & I feel that the mountains call our names out. We are truly mountain people. There is something about being cradled by range after range of these majestic pieces of ancient history that ignites a feeling a true happiness in us, reminding us of how small we are in the general scheme of things [...]
