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Day 98-105: 17-24 Oct 2008: ferries & friendly people, from Vancouver, CA, to Seattle, USA via Victoria

17 October 2008: Vancouver to Victoria, 75 km The weather gods did not want us to leave Vancouver, maybe they thought I should rest more. and rain pounded on us when we made our way to the ferries in the Southwestern point of the mainland of Canada. we had taken the monorail East first as [...]

1000 Americans: Estela & David, Victoria, BC

October 17, 2008 by Harry  
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Estela is from South America, David from the North. Thanks to the IT business they met up in and are now living together in the nice city of Victoria, British Columbia, ready for their first baby. David has learned some local skills during his time in and makes a mean ‘Asado’

Day 47- 52: Aug 27 – Sep 1: Anarchy, Argentineans & gasguzzlers in Nugget City

September 2, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under British Columbia, Canada, Go green, North America, Trip reports, Yukon

It was hard to leave Tracy & Sylvester as we had felt so much at home in their place, but we had to hit the road, winter was catching  up… We managed to delay ourselves until about 16.00 in Whitehorse and then left in a terrible downpour, and as the first few km were steep uphill [...]

1000 Americans: Ariel & Claudia, Argentina

August 30, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under 1000 Americans, Friendly people

My Spanish is still limited, but fortunately it is a bit better than Claudia’s and Ariel’s English. “No speakin inglis”, was about it and I am not joking here With this they had managed not only to travel from Southern to the Arctic Circle, but they were the happiest people we met so [...]