It’s about two and a half hours by car from our house in Seattle to Vancouver, Canada, and three hours to come back again. The difference is due to the border crossing — the lines into the US at Peace Arch are unpredictable and inefficient. There is little to do but sit in your idling vehicle, fussing with the radio and pondering why the line you’re not in is moving so much faster. It’s the border crossing that keeps us from heading north to our neighbor city more often.… continued…
It’s like a horror movie for your wallet. Funny how you can barely see the damage in the video footage. The part of Kermit the Frog is played by Peter Carey, stunned passenger, Kelly Goodman.
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Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RV in BC sponsored our travels.
I love to travel in British Columbia. It’s just up the road from my home in Seattle, but it’s still a whole different country. It’s easy to travel there — there’s no language barrier — but the slight shifts in cultural norms make for some good thinking about what makes up American DNA.
And it’s beautiful, BC is beautiful. Our last trip went to the Gulf Islands, rugged little rock piles covered in huge trees, surrounded by pretty little coves, sparsely populated but still offering excellent bakeries.… continued…
Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RV in BC sponsored our travels.
“Now’s the time,” I said to Walter, a positively bubbling 50 something man with a German accent, “when you tell me the worst you’ve seen.”
“You want the worst? The absolute worst? One time, I went to pick up a RV up in the Yukon and the entire side had been peeled away. The bathroom? It was completely gone. The whole thing was torn open.… continued…
Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RVing in BC sponsored our travels.
We walked along the shoulder of road and Peter stuck his thumb out. The second or maybe third car pulled over, and picked all three of us up. “Going in to town?” the driver asked, and when we said yes, he told us to climb in. We thanked him for the lift and he told us about the pinks, the salmon that are running right now.… continued…
