I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve gone on to Airbnb and searched for “cabins near Vancouver”. There’s just something about staying in a wooden shelter with a fireplace, blankets, a board game or a good book. I spend an almost embarrassing amount of time searching for ‘cabins near me’ when I’m bored…
My favourite summer activity in Vancouver is to go hiking and one summer I tackled some more of the peaks along the sea-to-sky highway that look out on to the Howe Sound in Vancouver. I had previously hiked the famous Vancouver lions with friends and then it became time to take on the Mount Harvey…
One of the best overnight backpacking trips I did during my 6 years of living in Vancouver was a backcountry camping trip up to Wedgemount Lake just north of Whistler. The lake is still part of Garibaldi Provincial Park, the beautiful park where you’ll find hikes such as Garibaldi Lake and Elfin Lakes, but this…
The Heliotrope Ridge hike is one of the best hikes in the Mount Baker Area in Washington USA with incredible views and a stunning glacier that you can see right from the trail without needing glacier traverse skills. We hiked the Heliotrope trail a few summers ago and it was when we seemed to have…
I usually spend my weekends hiking, camping and road-tripping but every now and again my legs need a rest (especially after a long week of dog walking!). A few weeks ago that break meant heading out to explore some of the BC Ale Trail and the Port Moody brewery scene. Heading out to the Port…
For a small town, there are a surprising number of fun things to do in Bellingham Washington. Just over the border from Vancouver, BC, Bellingham was a popular day trip for us when living in Vancouver. Bellingham fast became one of my favorite places to visit on the West Coast USA and I’d highly recommend…
If you’ve ever visited Vancouver and looked towards the north from downtown the chances are that you’ve seen The Lions. The two mounds that rise up are landmarks of the city of Vancouver. Lions Gate Bridge gets its name from them as does the town of Lions Bay. It’s fair to say they’re Vancouver (and…
Once we’d decided we were going to travel on the Trans Mongolian Railway we did a quick bit of research and saw that the Naadam games were happening around the time we were looking at going. They looked fun and very different, so we planned our entire trip around them. Before deciding on going to…
On our first (of what became many) road trips to Banff and Jasper from Vancouver, I knew that I also wanted to stop off in Yoho National Park on the return drive. Yoho National Park is across the provincial border from Banff, Jasper and Lake Louise and seems to receive a lot less attention than…
Me: “Where do you want to go away this year? How about a Northern BC road trip? Thom: “I really want to go to Eastern Russia” Me: … And that’s how we ended up deciding to spend 2 and a half weeks travelling along the Trans Mongolian Railway. In truth, when Thom suggested Eastern Russia…