"Just remember these funny place names, Walla Walla, Keokuk, Cucamonga, Seattle" With Elise back to working life (yuk what a drag), I decided I'd would head down to Seattle for a few days and catch up with Ozzie. A friend who Dias and I had spent a few weeks with through on the last trip. I got to town ad wondered a little on my own. I saw the first ever Starbucks! Yes that's where it started so find anything and everything you have rotting lets come back and le...

If you go out in the woods today, you better go in disguise... Hello there eh! Actually nobody in BC really says that. Apparently it's an east coast thing. I'm still just chilling in Van at Elises place she's been off work so were still doing to tourist bit. Lately it's included lots of hiking. All around Cypress mountain which in a fee months becomes ski town and all the way up, yes up the Grouse Grind. People were warning me away from this one a little. "It'...

"It doesn't get that cold in Van" - Elise So it's four thirt in the morning and I havn't slept yet, don't worry though it's part of my strategy. Taxi rocks up and I'm at the airport in plenty of time. First flight just to Sydney and thanks to my lack of shut eye I'm asleep before we even take of. Means I missed what was no doubt and amazing brekky (ppffttt) but wake up as we're getting close to landing. That's easy enough. Not feeling to awake I made my way on t...