Blogs from British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 413

UntitledNoel Wigdor Well here we go again. I very recently finished a painfully long, unbelievably rainy school year and have decided on my summer plans. A couple months back I acquired a motorcycle and am planning to live out of the saddlebags for the summer on a trans North America trip (Mexico? hmmmm....). Just this last week, though, I started things off with a trip to Vancouver Island. I left last Friday with the bike loaded up, the highlights being my unbelievably cute french girlfriend and a tent. The original plan (more on the "original" part later...) was to drive from Vancouver to Tofino, camp until monday, then drive Delphine (the name of the french girl, not the bike...) back to Vancouver in time to tie up loose ends and hop on a plane to New ... read more

Up at 8am, in the car by 10am, broken down by 12pm! We didn't exactly make it very far out of Victoria before there was smoke billowing out from under the bonet of our Toyota 'Rent-a-Wreck'! So we pull over, inpect the damage and make a knowledgeable decision that the car was in desperate need of some water! So we fill her up, wait a couple of second for the engine to cool and carry on our happy way! After some worrying chugging noices, more smoke and some concerned passengers we pull over for a second time at a very conveiently placed Car Body Shop. As we pull up, and jump out we summonded the help of two guys working on a car! We lift the bonnet to let the engine cool before attemping to ... read more

Last week Hailey Troock and I took off in the little toyota and headed West. After meeting up with some of her Big White Aussies, we started our mini adventure to Victoria and Tofino, on Vancouver Island. It was a very much needed trip after the second semester of our fourth year of uni. Lindsay is still in Kelowna, but getting ready to head up to the Yukon and then off to Mexico for another semester abroad. It will be a season of travelling for us both, and hopefully our paths will cross a few more times before our planes take off. Hailey and the boys have continued on toward Kelowna so that the car is back before Hailey's dad comes home tomorrow morning from Alberta! I am staying in Victoria for the summer, living ... read more

My first entry in our travel blog is coming from James's mom's living room at about 1:20am. We are doing some last minute surfing, and basically trying to book things so when we get to London James will be let into the country with no problems! This past week has been crazy with packing up our whole apartment, and putting everything we own into storage. Even though we've done all this moving, it still hasn't really sunk in that we're going to Europe tomorrow. I'm super excited! I guess the next time you'll hear from me will be from the UK somewhere. Once we get to London we are planning to drive to Darlington (northern England) to pick up Ernie! He's our new VW van that we bought on ebay over the weekend. He's sweet....I'll ... read more

Jacqueline Nicole Vienneau has been missing since since March 2007. Her last known whereabouts was somewhere in Syria. She's 33 years old, 1.7 metres tall (5'6''), 56.7 kilograms (125 lbs). She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is carrying a purple back pack Any information on her whereabouts, past or current, should be sent to local police or Interpol. File No. 2007-13000 Kevin.Fahey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Interpol Wayne.Martin@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Canadian Foreign Affairs adriana.omalley@rcmp-grc.gc.ca RCMP - Vancouver (604)817-0816 Gary Schweitzer ... read more