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It looks like I am not the only one impressed with the international departure area in the Vancouver airport. There are two little housesparrows flying around fighting each other inside the terminal. They walk around on the carpet picking up peoples crumbs and land in the trees planeted in giant pots all throughout the area. Im not sure if they live here or they got stuck here today, and are trying to find their way out. I hope they get out either way :). Im shocked at how many people are obl...

Once there was a group of people going out on the water to see the majestic killer whales that the area is known for. Everybody was therefore thrilled when we encountered the groups of females, young animals and a calf. No males, they would have been easy to recognize on their huge dorsal fin. All of a sudden though we saw that they were busy with something and a tiny little furry head popped up in the middle of the pod. A harbour seal with eyes huge of fear and blood around one eye... it wa...

Although my aunt was working all week, I barely spent any time by myself. As soon as Sam and her parents left on Friday morning, my parents and a few aunts and uncles joined me in Campbell River for the long weekend.Sam, her parents and I had breakfast and visited the Quinsum River fish hatchery and Elk Falls briefly before they left for the Victoria. It wasn't soon after that that my aunt's house was full and bustling with people. My parents, my aunt and uncle from Seattle, and another aunt ...

Okay I am in the final hours of waiting.  I had a bit of a panic ealier today at work.  I was driving my bus down from Whistler and found out the only highway was closed because of power lines falling across the road.  The highway was closed for almost three hours.  These types of highway closures are too common on this highway and this was the worst day for it to happen for me.  Good thing for me this happened midday and my flight is not until 3am and I live close to...

I asked my mom to drive me to the Kelowna airport, and we couldn’t get there fast enough. I was so excited to be going to London. It had been a long year of University, and I had just finished my first teaching practicum, and I was burnt out, so this vacation couldn’t have come at a better time. Also, I was really missing my two friends, Sherron and Heather (they’re sisters, and they are my two best friends). We got to the airport at about 12pm. My flight was scheduled to leave at 2pm,...

    Sooooooo....Vancouver is pretty interesting. Got myself checked into a hostel and started to explore the city. Now let me tell you.... This city has got some crazy people in it and if you want to party till you die then i would definately advise you to travel here and meet with the locals. The first night I met Candy and her friends who took me on a rampage through all sorts of clubs in Vancouver, among whch a newly opened gay club. Even though I must insist here that I REA...

Vancouver is gorgeous! I heard it rains like crazy there (80% of the time) I was lucky to be part of the 20% that it's nice and sunny. Partly because I went over the summer.DAY 1I came into Richmond (City just south of Vancouver) and just dropped off my luggage at the hotel and I headed straight to get my bus pass ($9CAN per day which includes bus, SeaBus, and SkyTrain, I highly recommend it over renting a car). Not knowing what to do, I just took a map and headed straight to Stanley Park to ...

14 hour overnight coach journeys aren't the stuff that good sleep and fresh mornings are made of, so as you can imagine, we weren't on top of the world when we got there. This at least partly accounts for my love-hate relationship with Vancouver anyway. Vancouver's definitely the most American-like city we'd visited in Canada, and very cosmopolitan too, with a cracking location on the Pacific and a stunning backdrop of fantastic mountains. A lot had been made of Vanco...

Decided against high tea at the empress, instead we went to Butchart Gardens and then on to the Butterfly Gardens.  Butchart Gardens was absolutely beautiful.  Apparently I rushed through it to quickly but come on, are we really going to analyze and identify every plant and flower?!  The Butterfly Garden was not quite what the brochure advertised, it was one big room basically.  However, it was great, tons of cool butterflies, flamingos, ducks, and coy fish.  We got s...

A photo gallery of my latest trip through the Canadian Rockies and cruise through the Inside Passage to Alaska

These are random pics that don't paticularly fit into an actual travel blog.

So, I have been in Kelowna since I left Yellowknife on the 14th of December. It was pretty scary quitting my job and leaving the town I know and love so much, but it is changing. There are too many drug addicts roaming the downtown streets. I used to stroll the side walks or walk into a bar and know so many people. I guess thats what happens as you get older! THINGS CHANGE Anyways, I just needed to make a major decision in the direction my life was heading so I find myself here. My dad ...

This entry is really for anyone with experience traveling in Europe who wants to dish out some advice: It's 2 months until I leave for Rome, but I've been thinking a lot about what to take - and since I'm a girl that's going to be more than what I really need I'm sure! I'm going to be spending September in Italy for sure, possibly parts of Spain and Greece, but in October and November I will be going north to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary until late November... eve...

After tidying up a few loose ends, we set out for the BC Ferry Terminal at Departure Bay. Although we expected to be on 3:00pm ferry, the ferry corporation had dispatched the old Queen of Nanaimo to run an overload trip at 12:45pm. The Nanaimo is one of the older, smaller & slower ferries that was built in the era just after the Blackball Ferries were "nationalized." In spite of the wind and swells, the weather was warm and sunny and the ferry made good time - arriving at Horseshoe Bay a...

March 17-22, 2007 I hadn’t been to Victoria in ages (probably 15 years), so I treated this trip like I had never been before. My friend Heather (who went to the University of Victoria for two years and had lived in Victoria while doing so) and I played the role of tourists really well. We left Vernon at around 8:30am. We were in for quite a long trip. The Vernon-Vancouver leg went smoothly for us. We made a stop for brunch at a truck stop diner in Hope (for about an hour), then hit the ro...