Tales from my travels
One of the strangest things about coming to Canada these days is changing base from New Westminster to Coquitlam. We’re unbelievably lucky though to have a good friend of my mum’s who’s happy to not just host us, but also mother us, whilst we’re here. It’s also been a great opportunity to discover some new…
Our second trip out for the day was with a friend from Shetland to Colony Farm park. Situated on the Coquitlam river, there are great views to the snow capped mountains on one side and the Port Mann bridge on the other with a soundscape of birdsong and freight train whistles. It didn’t take long…
So, the name gives it away… I was planning to run 10K today. Instead, since the training hasn’t exactly been going to plan, I decided to walk the event instead and consider it training for the 4daagse. And since Mum is out here with me, I dragged her along too for the ride! The truth…
These photos don’t have much to recommend them technically speaking, but I found them a nice series nonetheless. They were taken at 400mm handheld, and have been significantly cropped. A lucky sighting whilst we ate our lunch at a rest area off the Trans Canada Highway.
Total Distance Travelled: 2295km Route:(I messed up with the GPS, so I had to reconstruct this with Google Maps. Note to self – next time, download the track each day…) Elevation Profile: Golden to just before we rejoined the main highway near Hope and the batteries in the GPS ran out. The coloring of the…
I stayed in New Westminster just long enough to put a load of washing through, and then jumped back into the car and drove over to the ferry terminal at Tsawassen. I arrived with just minutes to spare before the 5pm ferry, and as I rushed through the terminal, and past the seating area at…
A quiet morning at the cabin to finish our trip. I went for a run along the dyke – a perfect spot for running, it has beautiful views, is flat, and even has mileposts (well, technically speaking, kilometre posts). Not that I ran further than the first post 🙂 I also had another go at…
It seemed a shame to leave our peaceful lakeshore cabin early this morning, but as we had a long way to travel today, we didn’t have much choice. Nonetheless, we found time to stop and drink a cup of coffee by the lake before we left. We kept clear of the highways today wherever possible,…