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Armchair Travel: Seaplane in British Columbia
I love this short demo film of a seaplane in flight by Canadian DP, cameraman, and producer, Steve Fagan. Click the link or the picture to watch it on his site. Gorgeous stuff. Curious about the plane...
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Flashback: How I Didn’t Die In British Columbia
This is a flashback post that I wrote before WCXC, back in 2006. :) Last summer I decided to take my 170,000-mile, 1986 Isuzu Trooper for a month-long, solo road trip from California to British...
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Unicorn Sighting
You just never know what you’re going to find out the in the woods… especially in Banff. :) Filed under: - Armchair Travel, - Canada, - Videos, — Alberta, FEATURES, MEDIA, PLACES Tagged: Banff, blog...
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Vintage Video: Bigfoot, Man or Beast
This is an early-70s documentary I’m watching at the moment called “Bigfoot: Man or Beast.” The film offers the opinions of both believers and skeptics, and follows a group of researchers in the...
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“Far, Maybe Too Far, Into the Yukon” in the NY Times
Alex Hutchinson for The New York Times There was a great article in the New York Times Travel section last month detailing four mens’ 12-day journey down the Snake River in the northern half of...
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Spring Tide, Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia
The Bay of Fundy, on the inland side of Nova Scotia, has some of the highest tidal fluctuations in the world. Here’s an example from Halls Harbor, near the end of the bay. You probably already know...
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The Library: The Curve of Time
We finished this lovely little book a few weeks ago. It’s a collection of stories, told by Wylie Blanchet, of cruising the coast of British Columbia in the summers of the 1920s, with her five children...
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Trying Our Hands at a Life at Sea
A Pearson 32 for sale in Port Townsend, WA First off, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, my apologies for the lack of posts in the past month. We’ve been making some life-changing plans here at...
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Spotted: Clean Toyota 4×4 Pickup
While driving around the Pacific Northwest last week, looking at boats, we spotted this nice, mid-1990s Toyota 4×4 Pickup. I don’t know anything about it except that it looks clean and stock. For a...
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Boat Shopping
We were up in Seattle searching for a boat a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been seriously looking since fall of last year for our upcoming Pacific Northwest trip this summer and fall. We saw several from...
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The Museum at Campbell River
If you ever find yourself in Campbell River, on Vancouver Island, I highly recommend checking out the Museum at Campbell River. It features exhibits that cover history of the area from native tribes...
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Spotted: Cruising Boat, Aloha 32
We’ve been looking for a boat for our Pacific Northwest trip and spotted this one for ourselves. We put in an offer on it last week. Traveling up to the Pacific NW four times since last fall, looking...
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Getting Closer!
We’re up on Vancouver Island on the west coast of British Columbia. Monday, after months of planning, we left the Bay Area, our truck loaded with supplies for our months-long sailing trip, en route to...
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Seaplane to Victoria
Here’s the seaplane at the dock at Lake Union. A couple of weeks ago I got on a seaplane docked at Seattle’s Lake Union and flew to Victoria, on Vancouver Island, to pick up our truck, which we’d left...
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Vancouver: Granville Public Market
A couple of weeks ago we were in Vancouver and spent the afternoon at Granville Public Market on Granville Island. It’s a big market hall with, I’m guessing, a hundred or more vendor stalls, offering...
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Pacific Northwest Ferry Map
View Larger Map . In case you’re traveling in the Pacific Northwest, I made a ferry map you may find useful. It shows routes for the two major ferry systems: the BC Ferry (blue routes), the Washington...
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Saltspring Island, BC
Here’s more on our trip through Saltspring Island on Natalie’s blog, The West County Bramble. It’s a nice little town and a good provisioning stop in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands.Filed under: -...
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Best Campgrounds in British Columbia
If you’re planning a trip up to BC, check out this post on the best campgrounds in British Columbia.Filed under: - Campgrounds, - Canada, - Pictures, — British Columbia, MEDIA, North America, PLACES,...
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Sailing the Pacific Northwest: Wallace Island
Well, a few weeks ago we were on relatively remote Wallace Island. It’s a 200-acre silver of land in the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. It’s not on the ferry route so you have to get there of your...
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Sailing the PNW: Chemainus, Vancouver Island, BC
OK, I may be biased, but my fiance, Natalie, writes a great blog over at The West County Bramble. She’s been doing a much better job than I have posting about our day-to-day travels. Here’s a link to...
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