August 2012
70 posts
Home Again
To those of you who were incredulous when we started talking about this journey: we did it! We’ve traveled 20,339 miles, including 2,260 miles driven on gravel or dirt roads, 2,120 by train, 410 by ocean-going car ferry, 400 miles by bush plane, 270 miles by raft or Zodiac and 205 miles hiking! We dipped our toes in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Lake Superior, Hudson Bay and the Arctic...
Moresby Explorers
I have a whole lot of photos to post from our final adventure, an excursion that lasted just four days—four days packed so full that I gave up on my intention to hand write a journal. This adventure with Moresby Explorers was so rich, a sensory overload with the old-growth rainforest, the ancient Haida village sites, the logging history, the wildlife, the tidepool creatures, and the rocky...
Heading Home
Well, we’re on our way home. Friday night we drove onto a ferry on Haida Gwaii for an 11 PM departure. We slept in a cabin onboard and arrived at 5:30 AM, then drove 700 miles through outstanding mountain scenery to Jasper, Alberta for the night. Wonderful dinner at Evil Dave’s Grill (where Steve had the Malicious Meatloaf and I had the Mad Cow—both far more attractive and...
