Category: British Columbia

After a crazy day in Vancouver on Wednesday (April 15th), Thursday and Friday were relatively quiet. Cathy and I went for a walk to Stanley Park on Thursday afternoon, I went for another early-morning walk on Friday, then at noon on Friday we started for home. Thursday began with...

I really got carried away with this post – it has 66 photos and 1,972 words, and took me two days to write, but it was a crazy day. I had taken my new “travel” laptop with the intention of writing briefer-than-usual posts each day, then just couldn’t do...

Cathy and I flew to Vancouver on Tuesday, April 14th, and returned home on Friday the 17th. After a brutal winter of record-breaking cold and then snow, it was wonderful. It began as a medical trip – a 6-month post-surgery checkup for me – but we added an extra...

Cathy and I flew down to Vancouver on September 23rd and stayed at the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel for one night, enjoyed the lovely weather they were having, then came home. Then on October 27th (my 75th birthday) we did it again, staying for two nights at the Fairmont...

Last September I posted an article about “Paddling BC’s Bowron Lakes circuit in 1968,” a trip that I have many photos of but no memory of. That was an enjoyable way to recreate a significant adventure and it brought back some tiny fragments of memories of the trip. This...

This post is about a mystery that’s been in my files for 35 years, that I have finally solved. There are two creeks in British Columbia named Airplane Creek. One is a tributary of the upper Stikine River, but this post is about the one east of Chilliwack. It...

This post is something of an experiment. Due to my brain injury, I have no memory of this significant adventure of my youth, only photos. My final neurologist said 2-3 years ago that the memories are still here, I just can’t access them. Sometimes various things will trigger a...

It’s now the evening of June 22, but I’m continuing to back-date the posts about our cruise-based trip as if I had posted them as we were travelling, which I was unable to do. This post covers June 11th and 12th, and the final one will be about the...

After the marathon day previous, Cathy and I were looking forward to a relaxing day on June 10th. It was only 187 km total to our destination, a historic hotel in Powell River, with most of the route new to Cathy. And having two ferry rides would be fun...

I was up early for some ship exploring and possible blogging on June 3rd, which would be a day of sailing north along BC’s spectacular coast. The first photo, of the Lido Bar in the centre of Deck 9 behind the Lido Pool, was shot at 04:40. The Sea...