It’s the BC Day Long Weekend and there’s no better time to brave massive ferry line-ups, SUV and yacht traffic, mobs of kayakers and the abundant wildlife. We rolled up over a lovely 8 hours of HOT weather and managed to make if to PR Kayaks less than 30 minutes after they closed. After being […]
Read more "Sounds of Desolation"On the west coast of Vancouver Island, the last weekend in July hosts a festival known as Ukee Days… or more accurately “uuuukeeeeeeeee daaaaaayzzzz!!!” We saddled up the surf gear, camping gear, and party gear, along with some amazing knit sweaters from my friends at Granted Clothing, and went to investigate the commotion. Ukeeeee Daaaaayz […]
Read more "Ukeeee Daaaaayz!"This past weekend immediately followed my first two-week shift of consulting work up in northeast BC and I was ready for a serious ocean cleanse of body and spirit. The usual crew assembled to celebrate Shayne’s birthday and we made our ragged way down into America searching for cheap booze, fireworks and surf. The Olympic […]
Read more "Getting La Push’ed Around by Waves"My feet are sore and filthy. Today is my last day in India, and it only seemed right to walk the streets of Delhi to revisit the places we saw four months ago and to explore some new ones. The idea was to finish off with the “real” India and after getting lost in the […]
Read more "The End?"Well I’m already about half way through my internship here in southern Andhra Pradesh and thought that maybe it was time for a quick update on my progress here. Basically, I spend my mornings roaming the countryside takings snaps of the things I encounter, all in the name of reviewing the wildlife monitoring program for […]
Read more "Pre-Monsoon Heat in Andhra Pradesh – FES Update"Big yellow taxi After our expensive entrance into the dirty little border town of Raxual, (see previous post,) we boarded a train heading east to the capital of West Bengal and the old colonial capital of India – Calcutta (Kolkata). Our arrival was yet another surreal 6am wakeup in unknown surroundings but we were quickly […]
Read more "Kolkata to Kerala"Pokhara to Kathmandu After the chaos and cacophony of India, Nepal is like a warm-bath dream. The people are warm and friendly with a never-ending Namasté on their lips. We were constantly approached by strangers hoping to try out their english and were asked thousands of versions of the simple questions with the same simple […]
Read more "Nepal – The Rest"Day 6 – ABC to Bamboo I awake at 6 to the sound of heavy mountaineering boots stomping by on the snow-covered boardwalk outside. I perform a well-practiced sleeping-bag change, grab my camera and step out in the brilliant morning alpenglow. The clouds are long-gone and the massive 8091m peak of Annapurna I is the […]
Read more "Nepal – The Way Down"The A/C in my train car is a welcome relief from the oppressive heat of early summer in Kerala and will finally allow me to write in comfort. It’s hard to believe, but two weeks ago we were shivering under blankets high in the Himalayas; now I can barely remember the sensation. I do, however, […]
Read more "Nepal – The Way Up"Uttar Pradesh (UP) is arguably the most influential and populous state in India, boasting well over 200 million people; however, this figure doesn’t even include the 20-40% of the population who don’t have the means to record births or deaths. In Aravind Adiga’s book “White Tiger”, he refers to the regions touched by the black […]
Read more "The UP’s and Downs of India – Agra, Khajuraho & Varanasi"
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