Canada
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Wednesday, 18 Jun 2008 | Views [62]
We took a ferry from Galiano to Victoria. A lovely, short trip and at no cost as the ferry from Vancouver to Galiano essentially covers you all the way to Victoria. We arrived in Victoria and caught two buses and arrived at Trevor's. We stayed at ... Read more >
Sunday, 15 Jun 2008 | Views [52]
Yes, that is the name of the place. serenitybythesea.com on Galiano Island. I was sure that I had landed in paradise. No doubt. And yet, when we heard from Sean, another wwoofing host whom we had contacted in order to build in some flexibility while ... Read more >
Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | Views [42]
From the interior, we decided to head for the coast. It had our name on it. It was what we loved. The temperate forest. The ocean. Both Mountains and flatlands. First stop: Vancouver
Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | Views [58]
We had been travelling in eternal spring since March 13th when we returned from Costa Rica, landing in Atlanta. When we came to Nelson, I saw the lilacs in bloom as the crescendo of spring. But, the real crescendo was yet to come, and it came today, ... Read more >
Monday, 9 Jun 2008 | Views [51]
We arrived in Winlaw with all of our luggage in tow, knowing that Caroline would be taking her friend to the bus for 11:10 a.m. The town is tiny, but it does have a wonderful organic food store with a cafe attached. We walked into the cafe, with all ... Read more >
Sunday, 8 Jun 2008 | Views [55]
In the midst of all the excitement of finding that we were staying and then booking ourselves in at the Dancing Bear HI Hostel in Nelson, we heard from some people that we had been communicating with about a possible wwoofing engagement. Mike and Ulla ... Read more >
Saturday, 7 Jun 2008 | Views [48]
As I said, I am neither a man nor am I young, but I am heading west, and feeling younger for it. One of the pleasures of my retirement, is not having to know exactly what I am going to do next! David and I found ourselves in exactly that state after ... Read more >
Thursday, 5 Jun 2008 | Views [49]
I'm not a man and I'm not young, but I am heading west, and feeling younger for it... Dave and I made our first stop in B.C. in Nelson, where Diane came and picked us up at the bus depot, swung by the organic food store, and then brought us over to ... Read more >
Monday, 2 Jun 2008 | Views [58]
Thanks to the couchsurfing.com project, Dave and I had a great time during our 4-5 hour layover in Calgary. Sarah and her boyfriend, Mike, picked us up and took us to an organic vegan restaurant called The Coup. It was artsy and neat, the food was wonderful ... Read more >
Thursday, 29 May 2008 | Views [67]
We arrived in Winnipeg Wednesday evening (May 14) just before 7 or so. Lori picked us up, we swung by eatit.ca where we had a joyous reunion, and then over to her place in River Heights where we have been ever since. We made a deal, back on the phone ... Read more >
Sunday, 11 May 2008 | Views [95]
What a change from the travel from one place to another that we had been doing in the past while. This place was really close. All it took to get from one place to another was for one of our hosts to drive us to Foodsmiths in Perth, Ontario, and our ... Read more >
Monday, 28 Apr 2008 | Views [132]
Sunday, April 27, 2008 We arrived in Ottawa Monday evening, after travelling up from Phoenicia New York. Doug, Manager at Menla, gave us a ride from Menla to the bus stop in Phoenicia, and just as we were parting, I said, “Doug, I’d ... Read more >
Friday, 16 Nov 2007 | Views [79]
We met with Marla in Trevor’s kitchen while he was at work. I’ve referred back many a time to an image that Marla shared: that of a flashlight shedding light on the path ahead -- that it does shine reliably but that it does not show very much of the ... Read more >
Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 | Views [73]
Talking to Trevor about traveling was great; however, we did not get started on that until the weekend. In the meantime, we had an interesting adventure. We took a hike to the AAA. It was so novel to be in a house and on our own with time to attend ... Read more >
Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007 | Views [131]
Towards the end of our stay at the farm we met up with friend, Trev, who, in the generous style for which he is famous, insisted that we stay with him (if we wished). The next night, he picked us up on his way home from work in Sidney. Trev had previous ... Read more >
Sunday, 11 Nov 2007 | Views [160] | Comments [1]
We were in the middle of clearing out the raspberry and artichoke gardens, cutting down the raspberry canes, raking out the leaves, and pulling up the weeds. We had just come into the poultry pen in order to empty the cane and weeds into the compost ... Read more >
Sunday, 11 Nov 2007 | Views [125]
We had an outstanding day, yesterday. After performing very few duties on the farm yesterday and fuelling up with food, we headed out to the road to walk towards our meeting time and place with Bart and Lynda. Bart is Dave's old cycling buddy, and the ... Read more >
Friday, 9 Nov 2007 | Views [113]
On Tuesday evening,(November 6th) we arrived in Victoria. We took the bus out towards our new temporary home on a farm on the countryside that lies within Victoria (Charlotte Road). Alberto picked us up and showed us our digs. On the way down, as he ... Read more >
Friday, 2 Nov 2007 | Views [133] | Comments [1]
We're finally here! First, we had to downsize: we purchased two backpacks on wheels with break away day packs. It is a great way to travel. We fed exed two big suitcases back to my brother in Winnipeg who will take them over to David's mom's place.... Read more >
Wednesday, 31 Oct 2007 | Views [140] | Comments [2]
Having time to ourselves in my cousin's downtown condo has certainly worked out well! We've had time to take care of business, and get down to reducing that baggage load that I spoke of earlier. I nearly died laughing when we left Winnipeg with our luggage ... Read more >
Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Views [129]
The trip to Vancouver would be more challenging: 28 hours on the bus. But our success with the 9 hours from Winnipeg to Regina gave us confidence, and we looked forward to the ride. Our bus went through to Calgary where we switched to a different bus.... Read more >
Friday, 26 Oct 2007 | Views [126]
Our quest began with an all nighter giving everything the quality of a dream... By shortly after 6 a.m. of the day that the new owners were to take occupancy at 9, and our bus was to leave for Regina at 10, we were packed up and struggling with our load ... Read more >
