Bluebird Motel Nanaimo

... br><br>I'm not sure exactly what Frank has planned for me. He generally requests that WWOOFers stay with him for at least a month, and was looking for someone with cooking experience. I don't have time to spend a month with Frank, but I can cook, so he took me on. I hope that I'll be in the kitchen, learning some local recipes, but I'll have to wait and find out. Everything will unfold as it should.<br><br>That feels like enough rambling for one day. <br>James<br>

... ferry (with beautiful scenery that is getting very similar) via all the Southern Gulf Islands. <br><br>Then caught the bus/skytrain into Vancouver and caught glimpses of what I think is probably the best sunset I've ever seen. The sky went pink first, then the kind of fluorescent orange highlighters are, then purple... and opposite the ocean the mountains were silhouetted against the dusky moive sky... it was almost like a 'Welcome to Vancouver... your home for the next 6 months.' <br>

... summer, seeing parts of Canada and the USA, all on your reliable<br>two wheels. You never let me down and kept me safe every second of the<br>way, during the torrential downpours, the gravel tracks, the miles of<br>construction and detours, the starless nights, the thick forest roads<br>and the great open plains. You gave every ounce of energy to this<br>journey, you responded to every request of mine and you never gave up.<br><br>I&#8217;m<br>sorry ...

... that you shouldn't push anything (especially a start time) if it is not necessary. <br><br>Hmmm... which makes me ponder the other lessons we learned from our African-overland roadtrip last year. Let's see...<br><br>1. I will not be buying a crate of baked beans to take on our journey as 'emergency rations'. No room in my saddlebags anyway.<br><br>2. I will be taking an eye patch for those times when I just need to shut the world away and sleep.<br><br>3 ...

... and ate them and took a few back for Jo and John. We thought we might go back with a container later to pick a whole lot. Jo had asked me to post some letters for her and I had forgotten to pick them up so when we got back I had to go out again to the post box. As I didn't exactly know where I was going I went right round the block again, past the shoreline and this time I saw the sea otter, but it had climbed up onto a wooden pontoon off the ...

Left Pete &amp; Siobhan's in Suva for a 30 minute flight to Nadi for the 11pm 6 hour flight to Honolulu. 1.5 hour layover there before 9.30am 5 hour connecting flight to Vancouver arriving at 4.30pm, then 7.30pm to Nanaimo (15 min) making for one pretty long Sunday............... All very easy though. The kids were great, sleeping for a good chunk of all of ...

hey guys and girls :) Today we went WHALE watching and guess what ? It was wicked !!! We saw a whole pod of Killer whales feedin on sockeye Salmon , there were about 2 males a female and a baby girl :) the tour was around 3 hrs long however it went a little longer because our boat on the way home had engine failure and we had 2 wait for another boat 2 pick us up ! it was pretty cool ! At the moment we are in a nice little town called ...

We arrived in Vancouver tonight. Nothing too interesting happened today, we drove through the Okanagan Valley, which was really nice, but didn't take too many pictures since it was a long drive and we wanted to arrive at a reasonable time (we ended up ...

... com/) and picked some lavendar for ourselves and our friends dodging the bees as we went..This place is not really well advertised as a touristy spot but a funny story led us to check this place out.Hidemi had actually seen a travel show in Japan a few years ago where the presenters had visited this farm.Hidemi had written on a small bit of paper the words Lavendar Farm in Kelowna,Canada with the intention of visiting there one day if she ever went to Canada.The girls ...

... available; the one carrying my current driver, one crazy sheik. He opened the trunk and before he could maneuver his robust form out of the front seat I had loaded them all in myself. He was mumbling something in his thick Indian accent. So, flash forward, here we find me praying. 'Don't let me get screwed. Don't let me get screwed.' Tick: $4.50. Long silence. Tick: $5.50. Long silence. "So, yong mahn. You vant to get to de Lahndmark. Vhere ees ...