Blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 162

Upon a friend’s suggestion I’ve created this site, so that instead of sending out mass e-mails every now and then, people can check in if and whenever they want to. I’m only gone for a month and a half, so I’ll use the site mainly to post pictures… once I buy a digital camera.... read more

Hello everybody, John here. Firstly apologies for the lack of photos, as warned in the introduction we have totally failed to master digital cameras, or the leads that go into the PC. We'll try and upload some photos soon. Until then, try imagining the wonderfully described scenes below. Finally am getting round to write this at 8.20pm Vancouver time, but my body is saying "Why are you still up? its 5am, you crazy fool" (although unfortunately I haven't morphed into Mr. T, maybe I'll get some plastic surgery in LA to fix that). Sunday was the longest sunday ever, beginning at 4am in Coventry and finishing some 27 hours of continuous travelling later talking to an excitable Chinese man in a random hostel in Vancouver. After being told to sleep in a double bed our hostle ... read more

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We planned on staying in Canada for 5 weeks and it turned into 17. This was due to some extenuating circumstances and we decided to make the best of them. Here is what we did for those extra few months. Liam managed and served at earls restaurant www.earls.ca Katharine helped out with the Plan Advocacy Network www.plan.ca We both helped out Marilyn at Cuisine and Company www.cuisineandcompany.ca These were great experiences and kept us really busy. Besides being enjoyable they were also able to help maintain our budget and we ended up leaving with a little more money in our pocket then when we started. We also spent a lot of time: Meeting Liam’s family and friends (a real pleasure for Liam as he has only been home for 4 months in the last 2 years) ... read more

Riding into the ferry terminal carpark at Haines, Alaska, it’s a big carpark and I ride down the No. 2 lane as I’d been told, already a lot of cars and 8 bikes there, suddenly a car driving down lane 1 turns in front of me, I veer right, evasive action mode, to try and get around but he’s turning too fast and I smash into his right front corner, wobble on a metre or two and crash out!!…..Check fingers and toes, check everything else, feels ok, stagger up, the front end of the little Chevy has been torn off and dents on the door and bonnet, fark!, what about the bike, my heart sinks…a couple of BMW riders have raced over from the queue, the brotherhood again!…one takes a couple of pix, they help me ... read more