Wedding Voyage 2011 - Halfway & Nelson

Wednes­day morn­ing, we had break­fast by a crash­ing road­side water­fall — scram­bled eggs and gar­lic pan-fried pota­toes.  A few peo­ple, see­ing the sign in our back win­dow, stopped to congratulate us.

After break­fast and cof­fee, we headed on to Halfway hot springs, which we’d never pre­vi­ously been to.  While wan­der­ing around try­ing to locate the path “down”, we said hello to a cou­ple ran­dom hip­pies — and were sur­prised to real­ize we knew these hip­pies.  It was Tarzie, and her hus­band and baby.  I’ve known Tarzie for years through the Cal­gary Burner com­mu­nity!  An awe­some sur­prise to find them by

Con­tinue read­ing Wed­ding Voy­age 2011 — Halfway & Nelson

July 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Camping, Road Trip, Vacation, Wedding, Ziggy | Comments are closed

Early Winter Update!

Drenched at Nia­gara Falls Orig­i­nally uploaded by Blue I’x

Apolo­gies for the abrupt stop of blog entries some­where through our Burn­ing man trip… We didn’t get Inter­net access again on the trip, and then got caught-up in the non-travel uni­verse once we got home.

It got put off. For months. Again, apolo­gies. So now, some updates.

The rest of our Burn­ing man trip was amaz­ing. To me, it was the best of all my 4 Burns. It was really windy/dusty/stormy for a lot of it — but I can’t com­plain, the extreme cli­mate is part of what I love about

Con­tinue read­ing Early Win­ter Update!

November 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alberta, British Columbia, California, Nevada, Oregon, Road Trip, Vacation | Comments are closed

In a Van, Down by the River

I’m sorry we’re post­ing with­out a photo yet again… But some­times half is bet­ter than noth­ing. Our maiden voy­age in Ziggy is going well.

We left Cal­gary on Fri­day night around 7pm, and headed for Cran­brook. We camped at Nor­bury Lake, about 30km shy of Cranbrook.

This morn­ing we headed into Cran­brook to buy the max amount of beer we could take over the bor­der (24 cans each) — because Cana­dian beer tends to be a hot com­mod­ity at Burn­ing man. We also bought an extra bat­tery and a solar panel at Cana­dian Tire, and then hit Timmy’s one last time,

Con­tinue read­ing In a Van, Down by the River

August 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Idaho, Road Trip, Vacation, Ziggy | Comments are closed

29 Hours in Vancouver

View 29 Hours in Van­cou­ver in a larger map

Not Granville Island Orig­i­nally uploaded by Blue I’x

This past week­end, Brian and I had tick­ets to the No Doubt con­cert in Vancouver.

We orig­i­nally planned to spend a good long week­end there, vis­it­ing Brian’s mom in White Rock, and hang­ing out in and around the GVA. How­ever, when it came down to buy­ing flights (admit­tedly recently — last week), we decided that we needed a day at home for house/yard work reeeeally badly, and decided to devote our Fri­days off to that.

So on Fri­day we mowed the lawn and weeded

Con­tinue read­ing 29 Hours in Vancouver

July 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: British Columbia | Comments are closed

West Kootenays Road Trip — Finale

View Larger Map

Alright, I know I was doing really well, post­ing every day, even with some pic­tures. But then noth­ing for day 4 or 5! I apol­o­gize. It’s amaz­ing how hard it can be to make time on a vaca­tion where you really have no plans or com­mit­ments. Ha!

So, where I left off we were in Nakusp for the night. The next morn­ing (Sat­ur­day), we wan­dered around Nakusp a lit­tle bit. Had break­fast in The Mid­dle Earth Cafe (which was AWESOME) and then wan­dered down to the lit­tle farmer’s mar­ket, then along the beach for a while. Sadly,

Con­tinue read­ing West Koote­nays Road Trip — Finale

July 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: British Columbia, Road Trip | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 
  Older Entries »