Geo: 48.6829, -113.799I graduated college in December of 2002 (good lord). Although I had a great internship that would surely turn in to a great career, I had two goals at the time: to attend some sort of Bible school, and to travel overseas. I killed two birds with one stone and attended Capernwray Bible School in New Zealand. I lived there for 6 months and a day. It was a 10-week semester, then a 2-week break, followed by another 10-week semester. I tagged about a month on to the end of the trip purely to travel. During the first 6-weeks of the second semester was an option called Adventure Bible School. This program centered around the outdoors - hiking, biking, sea kayaking, white water kayaking, white water rafting, spelunking, rock climbing - a pretty physically ... read more

Geo: 51.1752, -115.573Continuing east on highway 1 brought me to the incredible Canadian Rockies. Maybe it's just because they're new and it was the first time seeing them, but there is something more grand, more majestic, more regal about the Canadian Rockies than the Colorado Rockies (sorry guys).Passing through Yoho National Park, I took a small detour and hiked up to Sherbrooke Lake. A pretty easy hike gradually climbing through dense forest, occasional views of mountain peaks showing through the trees. The lake, as do many of the lakes and river in the area, had a greenish hue. This is from light reflecting off of tiny particles of rock formed from glaciers grinding stone together. One end of the lake was a jam and mess of hundreds of floating tree trunks, which I precariously hopped and ... read more

Geo: 49.8868, -119.497Perhaps only because it has been sunny almost every day I've been here, but the Northwest has captured my heart since I arrived roughly a month ago. The culture, the people, the vegetation, the air, the ocean, the mountains, the rivers, the billions of coffee shops, the music, the communities. However, I feel that my time is complete here (for now), and I feel compelled to head east.After leaving Vancouver (again), I unintentionally began a tour of lakes, a Tour des LacsCultus Lake: teaming with families, goobers, tourists, and teenagers – bare chested and bikini clad, excited and eroticized, begging, basking and battling for the attention of the opposite sex, but like Wiley Coyote, unsure of what to do with said attention once it is achieved (hell, I'm 31 and just starting to figure ... read more

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Geo: 50.1183, -122.954Especially after spending a season living in the mountains skiing and snowboarding every day, I've always wanted to check out Whistler. Where dreams come true. No, where dreams are shattered, because Whistler puts even the grandest dreams to shame. A place of legend and mystery, of milk and honey, a place where your glass of whiskey is never empty and you can never lose a game of pool. Where every pickup line works, every bartender is a friend, where there is always powder but the skies are always blue... Whistler.I was unimpressed. I'm sure the skiing in the winter is phenomenal (the mountain looks amazing!), but I guess I was kind of hoping for a little bit of a town, some "local" bars, and was bummed to find that it's pretty much just the ... read more