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Day 124 –133, 12 –21 Nov 2008: Washington State: Couchsurfing with friendly people from Seattle to …Vancouver?!?

November 22, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under North America, Trip reports, USA, Washington

We suddenly received an email. Hello Harry, Read your profile. Would love to meet if possible. How much longer are you in the Seattle area? Samir We called him and found out that Samir, his wife Madalyn & daughter Danielle were living in Bellevue, 25km east of Seattle. We had actually planned to leave Seattle on the west side, but [...]

1000 Americans: Tom & Sandy Hubbard, Vancouver, WA

November 22, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under 1000 Americans, Tips & Tricks

When I found out that Tom Hubbard and his wife Sandy were living on our path, I wanted to meet them. As a photographer, it is a pleasure to talk to Tom, who has decades of experience as a photographer and has worked with all the other great photographers during his work as Director of the [...]

1000 Americans: Dave & MC, Vancouver, USA

November 22, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under 1000 Americans

Sometimes you know people for a long time, and are friends, even though you have never met in person. MC had been a true fan of our 7summits Expeditions and even became a client, when she asked me to organize her climb to the summit of Kilimanjaro through 7summits.com. She hikes, composes & plays music, sells [...]

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. Wind and rain pounded on us when we made our way to the ferries in the Southwestern point of the mainland of . we had taken the monorail East first as [...]

Day 91- 97, 10-17 Oct 2008: Totems, servers, sushi & parks in Vancouver

October 18, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under British Columbia, Canada, North America, Trip reports

Vancouver is a nice city. Even though we had to get used to being in a large place again, we enjoyed the neighbourhoods, the bicycle lanes, the beaches, Chinatown, Sushi. I will keep this report short and just show you some images. We were surprised by the large number of homeless people in the streets downtown [...]

1000 Americans: Kristen Walmsley, Vancouver, BC

October 16, 2008 by Harry  
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Kristen and her housemates live together on the outskirts of Vancouver city. All of them are vegan or vegetarian and most of them can be found doing something with a laptop on their lap (like me and Lenny She made us feel at home, gave tips about our upcoming trip towards Mexico, as she [...]

1000 Americans: Luigi & Pete

October 16, 2008 by Harry  
Filed under 1000 Americans, Friendly people

Luigi & Pete were cycling through Stanley Park when we met them. They noticed our bikes even without luggage and started asking about our trip. When we bumped into them a few kilometers away, a few hours later, they invited us for dinner. Thanks guys!