Terry Fox memorial on the Trans Canada just before Thunder Bay
Terry Fox memorial on the Trans Canada just before Thunder Bay
We bought a caribou hide in northwestern Ontario. (Hey, how often do you see those for sale?)
We stopped in Dryden for a meal, and saw the Stanley Cup go by. Chris Pronger, from the Mighty Ducks, is a home town boy.
We left home Tuesday at noon and rolled into Tsawwassen ferry terminal, outside Vancouver, just in time to catch the last Ferry to
Swartz Bay at 10:00 pm Friday night.
We stayed overnight to catch the morning ferry to Saltspring Island.
A totem pole at the Sidney terminal.
Ferry to Fulford Harbour on Saltspring. Our 2003 Jetta diesel wagon made the trip with no glitches.
Total distance was 9700 km. We burned 471 litres of diesel fuel (= 4.8 L / 100 km, or 58 mpg overall, including mountains,
air conditioning
and fast driving across the prairies). Total cost for fuel for the trip was $450.00
Coming into Fulford Harbour on Saltspring.
Phillip and Heather's house on Saltspring.
Heather's bakery is on the right as you walk up the driveway.
They grow tomatoes on the roof, out of reach of the deer.
We measured a load of firewood for the oven, to get some data (and be officially working ;-)
Heather just got back from selling about 500 loaves of bread at the Ganges market (every Saturday morning).
Phillip is an architect. They've been renovating their house for the last few years.
Friends and ex-Shawville neighbours, we collaborated on an oven for Randy Bachman a few
years back.
All of the kitchen storage is in drawers under the long counter and island.
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A commercial shopping mall sliding door opens the house to the deck, Japanese style.
Needless to say, not too many mosquitoes or flies.
Ferry to Vancouver is passing by.
The tallest Douglas Fir tree on Saltspring is about a 5 minute walk away.
Down at the shore. This place has been inhabited for thousands of years. Some places have clam shell middens 30 feet deep.
Full moon rising over Swartz Bay. Looking towards Seattle, you can see Mount Ranier and Mount Washington on a
clear day.
Lavender festival.
Fresh wild salmon.
Heather is well connected to other local artisan bakers.
We got to take their Miata out for a spin. In the winter, when it isn't raining, you drive around with the top down and the heat on.
Stone mason Richard Dakin's house. We stopped by to do some design consulting on a bake oven he will be building for
a culinary school on Vancouver Island.
Pet crow, that Richard found injured on the road side.
Richard is into wine, and planted a vinyard in his front yard about 3 years ago.
We took the Long Harbour ferry back to Vancouver. It stops at 3 islands en route and is about a 3.5 hour trip.
We visited with Alex and Debbie and their family in Vancouver for 4 days and
had a wonderful time catching up and hanging out.
Alex and Anna
Anna, Julia and Leila
Anna and Julia.
Anna is into horses. Julia is studying law at McGill.
Alex, Anna, Debbie, Leila.
On Friday night, Steve Grant and his wife Jayne organized a barbeque at their house in Vancouver, where we had a reunion
with our old 14th Floor Commune members from Rochdale College, from 35 years ago.
Everybody was exactly the same, and a great time was had by all. It was wonderful to see everybody again.
Steve had an old photo of everybody around the dinner table back in 1971.
Steve and Jayne's daughter Nova is on the right.
We left Alex and Debbie's house in Vancouver the next day on Saturday around noon
to start the drive back home.
We had a brief but great visit with Shirley, also a commune member, and her husband David in Winnipeg on the trip home.
David was editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, and now does contract work for them.
Shirley is a professor with a PhD in Cultural Anthropolgy.
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Lake Superior surf at 6:00 am on a drizzly Wednesday morning.
We swung by Burlington to visit Mum. Nieces Emma and True were visiting the Richardsons and stopped by for dinner.
Emma and Grandma.
Debbie and Leila.
Murphy the cat.
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