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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Call of the wild
Just down at the bottom of Beef hill is a beautiful river in jungle. So my housemates and friends and I recruited some Martiniquen men with machetes
to show us the way to a 3-tier waterfall. I felt like I was stepping back 50 years before Martinique had big box stores and huge highways and never- ending traffic jams. And then when we got to the spot where one of the guys is building a cabin by the waterfall we got to enjoy some of the fruits of the jungle.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Surfin' Safari
The endless summer was re-enacted northwest style this summer...6 weekends of heading south of the border (well one was to tofino...) for cheap beer, weird groceries and more good times than you could shake a stick at....oh yeah and the waves too. So somehow we learned to surf, sort of...I now am no longer super stoked just to get my feet on the board, have learned what "drop in" "closed out" and "ground swell" mean and am not afriad to paddle out past the break (if the waves are small ) . Future goals include surfing on a board that weighs less than 50 pounds, getting to my feet without using my elbows and knees and finding waves that are warm enough to not freeze my extremeties to usless lumps.
home, sweet home
5 pm on friday and the weekend begins with anywhere between 5 and 10 hours of driving down the i-5 rocking out to Big and Rich in Chris' volvo....and then lovely campgrounds like these are our home for the next 2 or 3 days..notice on the top that we are camping in a gravel patch in a clear cut next to a airport runway. The one on the bottom is the lovely Neah Bay which we have made our home by spreading our gear in as wide a radius as possible
God Bless Walmart
After a crisis involving a Big and Rich song skipping on our CD we were saved by a local Walmart that not only had a large selection of country music but also also many fine food products. I am posing with cheetos and doritos flavoured crackers that sell for 30 cents a pakage at gas station and even cheaper in bulk at Walmart. Chris is posing with the largest oil containing jugs of "juice" we could find.
Surfin' U.S.A
Lolo and Chris in front of the haystacks at Cannon beach in Oregon (for some live action haystacks footage watch "The Goonies")
Chris and I on our first day of surfing the beautiful coast of the American pacific northwest...notice the lack of sun. It was about 12 degrees that day and our hands got so numb we couldnt get our booties off but we were hooked anyways.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Northward bound
Anna and I both had a couple of weeks free and decided that the Yukon was a mere 2559 km north of Vancouver and really must be seen. We caught a ride to whitehorse using craiglist rideshare and then hitchhiked around the yukon and a bit of Alaska. This lead to some random adventures, like riding in a car with 4 rifles, an axe, a chainsaw and a moose hide ( which i accidently put my pack on) spending an evening at a hunting camp with a group of middle aged men who made us dinner, and spending a night in a guy's trailer....who also made us dinner.
Misty mornings
Mist rising from the marsh at Liard hot springs. These hot springs (not in the picture) are wonderfully accessible (anyone who has tried to go to hotsprings in southern B.C. knows it usually invloves driving for hours down logging roads only to find out that you are on the wrong road) clean and surrounded by ferns.
Autumn in the Yukon
This road is the dempster highway, it goes all the way to the arctic circle and then on to the Northwest territories, we only went about 80km up it but considering we got there by hitchhiking from Whitehorse and we were invited camping for the weekend by the guys who picked us up we were pretty lucky (although they did have the ulterior motive of needing more models from their tourism yukon photoshoot)
Thursday, September 14, 2006
canoeing international waters
Anna and I decided that we should canoe to Eagle, Alaska, 150 km from Dawson city....sounds more epic that it is as the river moves pretty fast. It was supposed to take 3 or4 days but our fear of being eaten by a bear motivated us to do it in a day and half. Adventures included being heckled by the ferry to passes once a day, running aground a few times (neither of us knew how to steer, we went the whole way steering by switching sides to paddle) and being invited to a campfire at 1 am when we arrrived in Eagle.