Monthly Archives: July 2009

Left the van on the mainland and took the ferry to Victoria on Tuesday. Saw some killer whales on the way over. Booked into a hostel for a few days. Took a tour of the harbor and sampled a few different brew pubs. I can’t figure out how to upload photos on these ancient hostel [...]
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2 dudes 1 vancouver

We’ve been in Vancouver just over a week now and I am in love with this city. We are staying with my good pal’s Matt and Rachel. They have lived out here for about 5 months and knew enough to show us around the city, plus Matt rides BMX so he showed us a bunch of [...]
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Update finally

Here’s some writing from the journal I’ve sort of been keeping. Can’t always post here, because sometimes internet is hard to find. Sunday was more chill as people nursed hangovers and Marie’s parents fed us again(thanks!). Here’s Marie: And tour manager Duncan: We headed to a picturesque water fall and watched Shawn try to climb into a cave. He [...]
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Last Week

Trip started Saturday, headed out from Calgary with 2 bands in three vans. Hit a stamped breakfast in the morning and then hit the road with Dead Horse and Psychic Alliance. The mountains were tough on the vans, and 3 hours in Dead Horse’s van was on the side of the road with a blown rad. They [...]
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Who’s house? Run’s house. (well Conor’s house)

After moving out of the apartment we stayed with our pal Conor at his parents house. I had to do some freelance work and it gave us some more time to prep for the trip, regardless of whether or not we used it. My pal Leland was out from Toronto for a couple days too, [...]
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Mama and Papa

We took the van up to visit my parents. My dad is like the smartest dude in the world so he helped us figure out all of the sweet shit with the van and gave us some good ideas for when we set up camp since he used to own a similar rig to what [...]
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