This week Tim and I, a Kiwi from Canterbury who I met in Canada as it would happen, tramped our way into Garibaldi National Park for two nights at Elfin Lakes hut, climbing to Columnar Peak on day two at 1800m before sliding down the peak on a tarp, which I would have to say, along with kicking steps with show touching the knees at certain steep locations was quite exhilarating. As was the Therma Rest tobogganing later in the day down rather steep slopes head first. All in all an amazing location, mid week where we pretty much had the [View Full Entry]

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Lets start with a quick update on how one ends up house sitting a beautiful floating home in an amazing bay slightly removed from one of Canada's most talked about downtown locations (Victoria City), on holiday, cruising on a long board to hot yoga classes daily, for the benefit of the past 6 months, which whipped by without a travelblog thought. On News Years Eve 2007, midnight precisely, a greyhound bus bound for Calgary, Alberta, some 18 hours away, pulled away from Vancouver's Central City Station with two friends headed off to make some hard earned spending money in Northern Alberta's [View Full Entry]

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More than specifically Tofino, this entry starting in Kelowna, heading to Tofino, back to Vancouver-intermittently in Squamish over the end of summer-weekends, highlight of locations being Tofino. This is my well overdue summer blog starting from return to Vancouver following a visit to see Dad and Rotchana in Thailand -1st August 2007 until this evening 7th November on a rather wet Fall evening following a beautiful clear day, not counting all that grey cloud. Do not even notice the rain anymore, its my friend these days, got the goretex jacket and bike booties to prove it, visor on the helmet and [View Full Entry]

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Three weeks in Railay Beach, Krabi region, South Thailand. Not an opening sentence that is justifiable in description of what exactly this means. Try this: Living a bohemian lifestyle where your backyard is one of three beaches, days revolve around the family you have formed there, rock-climbing and dinner time at a local eating establishment you happen to have eaten at every day who now know you name and exactly how you order everything. A rest day means no climbing because your muscles need a rest so to the beach you go, nothing is more than a 20 minute walk [View Full Entry]

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Tonight is Tuesday, eight days exactly since boarding a bus to Bangkok on an overnight long haul. As this guy sits, I'm back in Thailand after a Visa run to Penang, Malaysia, thats a story for tomorrow though, its time to show off one of Thailands little paradise spots. Arriving in Thailands big smoke around 5am with Alec my Thai sister of sorts, some early morning beach attire was shopped in a place that seems never to close, we were originally planning to catch a bus to an island called Ko Chang but through Alecs last minute brain storm we [View Full Entry]

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11 June Arrived on a bus into the Nong Bua Lum Phoo Bus Station at 6am Friday morning having woken 2 minutes before pulling in. When traveling one must be prepared to jump straight into the day with no preparation, step one, take a leak inside the terminal and gather thoughts. Step two, keep a smile going and a friendly head nod as you show half a dozen taxi drivers drivers the address on a piece of paper that really is your intended destination, despite their surprise and disbelief. Finally after much deliberation on the address location and cost to [View Full Entry]

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My last couple of days in Vancouver was very relaxing I left my packing until the night before, in fact that Wednesday night saw no sleep at all stayed up right through until it was time to hit the airport. A full day was spent on Kitsalano Beach (Spelling questionable) in the sun, followed by Thai food overlooking the water, a warm up for Asian cuisine to come. I’m going to let the photos tell the story here, and attempt to start blogging more so that everything is fresher to this mind. Enjoy. Currently in Bangkok nursing a mouth less [View Full Entry]

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SASQUATCH MUSIC FESTIVAL, The Gorge, George, Washington, USA 26-27th May 2007 Two months ago while at a Maple Ridge gathering with Becca and the crew, it was determined that it would be in my best interests to attend the Sasquatch music festival especially considering The Dandy Warhols would be attending, not to mention Bjork, The Beastie Boys, Manu Chao, The Arcade Fire, just to get you all feeling a little envious. As I mentioned, the original plan was to finish work right up to departure for this festival so it had been a couple of weeks in holiday mode spending [View Full Entry]

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Camping. Camping at the end of spring in beautiful British Colombia next to a lake. Sounds like it could be rather a delightful idea don't you think. We thought so! Having finished up work two weeks earlier than originally agreed upon with Peter my employer and having come to a mutually happy agreement that one may as well enjoy his last few weeks in Canada without the Monday to Friday routine of mowing lawns, it opened up a door with a dozen or so hospitality students who have been studying at Vancouver Community College with Jay (house mate over the past [View Full Entry]

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Its been a long time I must say, and this is because, I'm not gonna lie' (that was Canadian) I have been lazy! Yes, working routine of working then exercising, its been all positive for the old body, sun is starting to shine as Spring arrived a few weeks ago here in Vancouver, the arms are brown from working outdoors, which is a relaxing and calm change from Gardening in the rain, soft rain, hard rain, ice rain, snow rain, indeed, we had it all it was fun. Well, lazy, perhaps more how shall we say, limiting amounts to report, the [View Full Entry]

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