So I’ve been on the road for the past week on a fantastic road-trip. We left Edmonton on the 27th and headed west. We crossed the mountains and kept going on to the coast. After boarding a ferry in Vancouver, we drove to the furthest point of Vancouver island, a town called Tofino. This town is known for surfing all year round. The water is cold and wetsuits are worn at all times to keep from freezing. We surfed three times in two days and were utterly wiped from it. A lot of fun but I’m not a fish so it’s tiring. We are now on the leg back.
The best part about this trip has been how much we have done. We have not slept past 9am this trip and have been up at 6 on a couple days. even with drive time, we have so much time to spend doing things that are fun. Let me think for a second on what we’ve done so far (in no real order)… we saw the mountains, stayed at the Banff Springs hotel for cheap, enjoyed many great breakfasts, surfed a few times, walked everywhere we could, touched exotic animals in the Vancouver zoo, seen Vancouver for the first time, climbed a totem pole, climbed rocks in an inland stream, drank from said stream, visited a few people we know, took a million photographs, bought a ridiculously comfy pair of shoes, tried a dozen different kinds of ice-cream, picked up trash that wasn’t ours, walked among the dinosaurs, touched an eagle, climbed the rigging of an old-style sailing vessel, touched a sea anemone, swam in the ocean, ate liege waffles, panned for gold, rode a quad, pet a main-coon cat, watched a few artists at work, listened to live music being busked into my ears, slept in a church parking lot, ate some of the best food around, and more that I can’t remember right now. The best part is that I feel like the trip should have been done by now but we still have a couple days left! Might go see some aquatic life in an aquarium and climb a mountain still.
It is amazing how much can be fit into one day.
