Inn On Long Lake Nanaimo
4700 North Island Highway Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, V9T 1W6, Canada
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Flappin' all the way to the USA! 1st Leg - Canada
... pics! We also got pulled over by a county state trooper!! oopps!
It turns out that if you pass roadworks on the highway, you have to slow down to 60km/h and as I'm speeding up to these roadworks, I see the cop car! I panic and slow down to around 90km/h from 110km/h and I think I'm fine. I look in the mirror and on go the sirens, the chase is on!! I do think for one second, shall I? As soon as the thought entered my head, I was pulling over with a weird ...
Peak 2 Peak
... it had to do with the walls and windows around us.
We spent about 1 ½ hours on Blackcomb where we had lunch, then took two chairlifts down from Blackcomb back to the village. Angie still had a little issue with these two rides but was getting better
We left ...
Moving on in life.
... before I get to writing I have to get back to traveling. So now you get to see where my travels will take me.
The planning for the trip to Asia has been progressing nicely. I've done some research and I have an itinerary. Knowing that I'm always where I'm supposed to be at the right time, there has been some modifications to the itinerary where an easier "plan of action" allowed the trip to flow better.
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July
... after followed the most bizarre part of the day - the cutting of the Canada cake, a huge cake made in the shape and style of the Canadian flag!
The rest of the month has been a bit of a blur of family barbeques with our awesome Canadian family in 20-30+ degree heat, and local trips. Our first venture out of Nanaimo was in Vera, our slightly rusted, geriatric 95 Plymouth Voyager van. Despite the odd judder and her refusal to turn the lights off for ...
Whale of a Tail
... them. I was absolutely thrilled. I was running around the boat trying to take pictures like an idiot and it is probably a miracle that I didn't knock myself into the water. Off one of the points we were able to see two more Whales actively breaching the surface at a more rapid pace than the ones we had been watching. We signaled to R Time that we would go ahead. Less than a mile ahead we stopped again. There was a pod of about 6 to our port side about ½ mile out. We watched ...



