hitchhiking across Canada and new adventures

David and I have returned after hitchhiking from Vancouver to Montreal, and the trip was amazing. This country is so varied in culture and landscape, it's crazy. From the Gulf Islands, the desert in British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains and the prairies... it was just so incredible to watch this continent shift and change as we moved east.

We camped in the mountains on closed-off roads, next to the train tracks and truck stops, even in someone's backyard once by accident. For the most part people were kind and generous, one young guy working in the oil fields bought us a steak lunch, others offered to stop and let us take photos when we drove next to something especially beautiful, and we even got picked up by a family from Barcelona in their motor home! We got to see some old friends along the way, such as James, who took us to Drumheller and the dinosaur museum, and Alison, a girl I did an exchange program with in high school, and partied it up some old high school friends in Ottawa for a couple of nights on the way home.

Now that I am home my years of repressed wanderlust have blossomed into all-out recklessness, and I am saying goodbye to my beloved apartment in one month to go on a roadtrip through the deep south to the desert of southern California with a dear friend. When I return, well, we will see what happens.

Anyhoo, here are a bunch of photos from the trip. David took a lot of them. Mostly I got video though. Someday I am going to do something with it all and then I will post it here.



Ukelele in Whistler, BC



best fish and chips at Hungry Herbie's Drive In.



Setting up camp at Cache Creek, BC.



Plant life in the desert.



Leaving Cache Creek.



Weird water reserve thing just above our campsite in Sicamous. Our site was so awesome that we stayed two nights, roasted marshmallows and hot dogs on the fire, and got caught up with y'all at the local internet cafe.




Leaving Revelstoke for uh, Banff.



View from our campsite at Field, BC. It was kind of an undeveloped spot next to a road and the train tracks.



Field again.



Horseshoe Canyon just outside Drumheller, AB



Dinosaur Museum! can you believe they found most of those bones in the very place we were walking on? incredible.



near the legislature in Regina.



Salt flats.



Camping in Medicine Hat. we saw Dark Knight the night before a short walk away.



Camping in Sault St-Marie, outside Walmart. it was glamorous, let me tell you.



drunkenly singing along with the Streets of Fire soundtrack in Ottawa with Mark and Aubrey. someday the video of this will appear on youtube and we will become famous.