One life…live it!
We had originally planned to leave the Prince of Wales Island at the end of July but a strike by the union that operates the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system put paid to that. With no road system in or out of Ketchikan the only way to travel to/from is by boat or plane. As …
Continue reading "015 – One strike and you’re not out! – 11th July 2019"
It is a rainy Sunday afternoon as I write this blog and looking out of the float house window I can just about make out the shape of the nearby islands through the mist and murk. This morning was beautiful though and a very relaxing four hours was spent fishing for halibut under a sunny …
Continue reading "014 – The Prince of ‘Whales’ Island – 7th July 2019"
LIFE ON A FLOAT HOUSE Our house, in the middle of our street sea I'm not sure if I can convey how surreal our life is right now when compared to the life we have been used to living in the UK. We are staying in a small green wooden house that is mounted on …
After leaving Prince Rupert, British Columbia at 3 a.m. and sailing for around six hours we arrived in Ketchikan, Alaska at 8 a.m. Yes, we had passed into another time zone and were now in Alaska Daylight Time, which is 9 hours behind the UK. Approaching US Border Control at Prince Rupert Alaska Marine Highway …
The drive from Jasper to Prince Rupert can be done in two long days or three days if you want to travel at a more leisurely pace. We had five days until we had to catch the ferry at Prince Rupert so we contacted our friends Nick and Kaitlyn and asked if they could put …
Continue reading "011 – Au Revoir Canada (for now) – 7th May 2019"
Icefield Parkway is the name of the road that runs between the towns of Lake Louise and Jasper and on the day we left Canmore it lived up to it's name - it had snowed heavily overnight and it was bitter cold. The road was a combination of ice and snow and our windscreen wipers …
Continue reading "010 – Icefield Parkway & Jasper – 1st May 2019"
We were like kids in a sweet shop and were struggling to decide where to go first. There were so many places of great beauty that we could choose from even with many parts of the park closed due to the winter season. Our first stop was at Two Jack Lake and the neighbouring Minniewanka …
Continue reading "009 – Banff National Park – 27th April 2019"
Shortly after entering the Rockies the road began to climb and the scenery improved significantly from that which we had been used to over the last few days. With the sun shining we entered the small town of Canmore where we planned to spend the next six nights. Canmore is located just outside the Banff …
Over the last day or so we have talked to a number of locals about how flat and endless the Saskatchewan Prairies are and they all respond with a smile, a shrug and give a 'what can you do' look, yet at the same time they seem almost proud of the fact that they live …
Continue reading "007 – How may we help you officer? – 21st April 2019"
Yesterday we passed a large sign adjacent to Highway 1 that showed we had arrived at the longitudinal centre of Canada. This milestone also represents the halfway point of our journey to Prince Rupert. Feeling like we were making good progress and it was all going to be downhill from here, so to speak, we …
Continue reading "006 – You’ve cancelled what! – 19th April 2019"
No is the answer, not by a long way! After driving between 200 to 300 miles per day for the last 9 days we have arrived in the Province of Manitoba and are only now halfway to our destination of Prince Rupert in British Columbia. What have you seen, what have you learnt, are you …
Continue reading "005 – Are We There Yet? – 17th April 2019"
Chrissie woke before me but I was to wake very shortly afterwards by her shouts and screams of "it's snowed, it's snowed a lot". The view of the Port from our apartment was a very different one this morning to the one the previous day. We enjoyed the snowy scene for a few moments before …
Having said our goodbyes to friends and family we caught the 14.05 train at York station on 6th April 2019 and from there, following a series of connections and various modes of transport, we arrived at our accommodation in Halifax, Nova Scotia at around the same time the following day. The train had been on …
Continue reading "003 – Nova Scotia, Canada – 7th April 2019"
With the Land Rover on its way there's only a little time left now before we fly out to be re-united with it (from the tracking app we are pleased to say that at time of writing the container ship ship is docked at Port of Halifax, as below). Be gentle when offloading our cargo …
Continue reading "002 – Preparing to leave the UK – 1st April 2019"
I don't mind telling you that the whole shipping process has been a bit of a minefield. There seems to be so many different people involved at each stage with each one wanting a fee for doing something or other, or in some cases, for possibly not doing much at all. "Oh yes, I wave …
Continue reading "001 – Shipping the Land Rover – 4th March 2019"
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