The Oregon coast was often rugged and winding, with steep drops off the highway… and boy was it beautiful. I admired the coastal trees, tall and strong against the nautical winds, and sometimes feared the thick fog that nearly forced us off the road. Between its natural richness and the quaint drive-thru coffee huts, the numerous…
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We arrived in Port Angeles later in the afternoon, after a pretty smooth ferry ride across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and made our way to the motel we had booked there, a Days Inn. Unfortunately, we ended up quite disappointed with our first stay in the U.S., as our motel was really dirty…
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(**Update at bottom of post.) I can’t believe that we’ve been travelling for almost six months. As of this writing, we’ve stayed in 28 hotels, 22 motels, two college residences, one tent, three cabins, three condos, one basement, three houses, one apartment, and two hostels. We’ve seen lots of different designs and layouts in our…
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Near the end of our drive across Canada, we took the ferry from Vancouver to Vancouver Island, enjoying sunny weather during the three-hour trip across the Salish Sea into Nanaimo. From Nanaimo we drove to Port Alberni, which gave us easier access to the scenic Pacific Rim. The first night, after some hunting around, we…
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Kelowna, BC and Surrey, BC: After some more driving through the Rockies we finally arrived in the Okanagan Valley. We decided to stay at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus as we enjoyed our previous stay in a residence in Sudbury, so thought it would be a good idea to try again. The added…
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