Vacation Station

Hey guys! Liz here, back from vacation and trying to figure out how to narrate a month of life on the road. Words that come to mind are coffee, coffee, more coffee, sunglasses, roadside treasures, friendly locals, engine humming, sitting on still lakes, beers with buds, ups and downs, hills and valleys, bill bryson on tape, dust, flora, fauna, big sky, red fox, incredible mountains, dirt under fingernails, dirt on everything (really), campfire smoke, BEARS BEARS BEARS, nuggets of gold, dinosaur bones, wide rivers, mars-like desert-scape, and terrifying speeding rigs barrelling down the highway behind us.

The van was awesome. It did tend to get cluttered up pretty fast,

but next time we take off we'll probably only pack half as much.

Sunny times outside Osoyoos where we watched the Canada Day fireworks from a hill overlooking the lake (the camera I was using for these pictures did not have sufficient capabitiles for capturing fireworks in the night sky, but they were crazy! The show went on for about 45 minutes!)

A little passenger ferry we took on our way from Nelson to Banff

And last for now, the truly amazing Rockies. One of the highlights of the trip was being able to explore this mountain range both on wheels and camping/hiking about.

Now these are only the first 3 or 4 days of the trip, once I figure how to get the pictures off the other memory card I'll do another post with more BISON and BEARS and FOXES oh my!

:)

Lily Inspiration: Homes away from Home

Today I will be venturing off into the wilderness (after we get out of Calgary I suppose) for a month long road trip with my best fella. We will be travelling all over BC, Alberta and the Yukon. Our general route incorporates visits to friends in big cities, family, and a pal currently tree planting up in Manning. Below a very rough map of our route, as we once we finish paying visits to those good aforementioned folk we will be going wherever the wind takes us.

During the trip our awesome 1994 Toyota Previa will be our home away from home, decked out with a leisurely bed in the back, a trunk full of supplies, mini cooler, poorly made curtains (by yours truly) as well as a bunch of books on tape, books in real life, backgammon, sketch pads, guitars and a harmonica.

(me sewing in some velcro around the windows for curtains)

I've been having a ton of fun polishing up the Thunderwagon into cozy home away from home and making up new and interesting ways of organizing and containing all the things for our trip. Seeing as we won't usually be near computers, my blogs will most likely be few in July, but expect some awesome shots and accounts of travel once I return.

Sayonara!!