Blogs from Hope, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 2

Is that really a solar panel behind your bike? I could not have imagined a better icebreaker than a bike trailer with a solar panel. In fact, even if it weren't connected to anything at all, it would still be worth dragging the darned thing up the Fraser Valley as I have been doing for the past 5 days. The answer is of course, yes, that is indeed a solar panel that I've hauled the 440-odd kilometres to Hope, British Columbia. Starting in Victoria, the panel faithfully followed me up the Saanich Peninsula, over the ferry and past the farms of Salt Spring Island, then back across to Vancouver Island, bounced its way along logging roads to Nanaimo, sat patiently on the ferry to mainland Vancouver, rocketed around Stanley Park, and weaved its way through the ... read more

Well, it feels like things are coming to an end already. Danny, Jenn, Nate, Chris and Kim have all left to go back to school, except for Chris, he went home to England for another job. So now there's only Andy, Heidi, Elbie and I left at res. We had a farewell party for Nate and Kim, which they both got pretty drunk and had nice hangovers for their flights home. Alot of people from work came too, Diane, Gina and Ron, Kathy and Ken, Ashley and Kelsey, then everyone from res. The fire ban was lifted the day of the party, so we were able to have one last fire for them. It was a pretty cold out that night, so I put on this huge spare jacket on that was in our house, it ... read more

Well we made it to Idaho (and there was no sign of Keanu Reeves, before any of you ask...) We stayed in the town of Bonners Ferry (where, we discovered, they sell surprisingly cheap liquor!). We crossed back into Canada last Wednesday, and headed up via Creston to Kootenay Lake. We spent a very pleasant couple of hours at Lockhart Beach, lying in the blazing sunshine, before heading north again to Kootenay Bay to catch the car ferry across to Balfour. The 45 minute crossing apparently makes this journey the longest FREE car ferry journey in the world (for those of you who are interested in that sort of thing). I’m sure that you can imaging Craig’s conflict: on the one hand it was FREE, but on the other it involved getting on a boat and ... read more

So, everyone must be thinking that I'm a huge drinker over here in Canada. The funny thing is, you couldn't any further wrong. It's just that whenever there is something to write about, it seems to be an event that involves drinking. I'm sure you'd all get bored if I wrote about my nights that we all just sit around watching TV or movies or about going grocery shopping. The truth is, I really only have a drink maybe once a week, so no, I'm not an alcoholic, I am on a working holiday and not a drinking holiday as somebody asked me lol. I'm really only saying this cos, my next paragraph involves me drinking again. My days off. I ended up having to work on one of my days off as Brian wasn't there, ... read more

I know, I know, sorry everyone, I've been a bit slack with putting my mext blog up. Ok, well here it is, enjoy. Ok, well this week was off to a great start. A couple of people from last year, Kyle, Brenden and Vote turned up at res, they came for a visit and were staying with Diane and Rob but came out for a drink at res and to meet all the new staff. Of course, Jenn and Kim were the first to introduce themselves and to start flirting with them. It was good to have a few drinks with everyone though, I drank a bottle of Wolf Blass Yellow Label to myself, very nice. It was gone by 9:30pm lol. I was quite happy. We've had two blackouts this week. The first one happened ... read more