The Drive Vancouver

... one of the cafes in town we drive North to a town (Rumford??) whose name isn't on my map. There isn't much there but the drive alongside the gushing Howe River (a guess) makes up for it. On the way back we stop and go for walk to some waterfalls. After ...

... to four hour drive from Comox (I told you this island was huge).  En route we took in more views and enjoyed the drive through mountain passes alongside rivers and even stopped at Cathedral Grove, home of several huge, and I mean huge, Douglas Fir ...

... with his Journey and was about to quit searching and go back home. He persevered. I just have to be patient. On the drive back from Victoria I stopped in the town of Chemainus. They have these murals painted on all the town buildings. I walked ...

... furniture so she and Leon have a big van which accommodated the six of us comfortably. The weather was beautiful and the drive though the hills breathtaking. Many homes are built of timber and are nestled among the trees around the waters of Vancouver. ...

... south and dips in and out of the steep-sided Fraser River Valley all the way down to Hope. The absolute best part of the drive is between Spence's Bridge and Hell's Gate Canyon. There are a lot of great curves. I stopped to check out Hell's Gate ...

... was incredible. Then it was my birthday on Tuesday – and courtesy of mummy and daddy Cobbold, we all went out for Thai on the Drive, followed by Italian icecream and then went on to a jazz bar for a cocktail. During the day I had my first Angel ...

... . Hopefully they might come back to me next week. On Thursday Ancel and I went to the open mic night at a cafe bar on the Drive. Most guys were a bit too mellow for the setting but there was one awesome band, playing quite gentle guitar 'gypsy' songs ...

... us with the hot chocolate probably helped. Tuesday was more Prayer Stations- we all prayed about it and agreed we wanted to stay on The Drive if possible. Bobby, Anne, Ancel & Rebekka decided to go to East Hastings, and I was left to try and organise ...

... . So we spent the morning doing odd jobs, cleaning out 4 huge freezers, doing this and that. We were meant to go litter picking on The Drive but Pete (who was in charge) disappeared for 2 hours. So yet again, were faced with an unscheduled afternoon- but ...

... stopped feeling sick. To aid the sugar sickness, I decided hair of the dog was the way forward and so went out onto the Drive to buy a selection of her favourite liquorice. Nathan (from Canada) and Jenny were going up to Whistler on Saturday afternoon ...