Hyphen Nation wrote:A cool trip, but one you'd need some serious time for…drive west to BC. Take a ferry out to Victoria, and then take that down to the San Juans. That whole Island cluster is ridiculously awesome. Spend a few days there, then head on down to Seattle for a day. Drive down to Portland for a day or two [I think it's a two day city, and there is some serious Dr Scientist love in our music shops/tax write off]. From there head out to the coast and drive down through Cali. Oregon Coast is awesome [Goonies filmed there]. You could get from Portland to the Redwoods in a day, easily, and head on south as far as you felt like going...
This would be such a trip! We've been to Vancouver Island once, we got married there in Tofino in 2009, spent a couple nights in Victoria, we really loved it on the island. I like your trip plan a lot, to me that would be a perfect road trip holiday! I'd wanna keep going south down to Antarctica..
rustywire wrote:Also I'm jealous of that "traffic" and how everything resembles the mental picture I have of Northern NJ, from my old man's stories of growing up in the 1950s.
You lucky bastids can also drink out of streams. In 2014. That's unheard of here. :no:
Thanks for sharing these photos.
Thanks for checking 'em out! Rush hour in the mountains is a little different than in the city hey? *smile* I feel lucky to be around places like the mountains, it's special in there. And yeah, I bet those mountain streams taste incredible! There's a couple glaciers to look at on that drive too, I didn't document them well since it gets cloudy and dark so fast and at the wrong times. Glacier stream drinks...
double_fat wrote:I was living in Lake Louise for work at the ski hill, but we lost our gear storage space there and our drummer and bass player were living in a place in Field with this dirt-floored basement that had been a practice space for a previous ski-hill band, so we moved gear and practice out there. Our first show as that year's incarnation of the band was a fundraiser at the field community center and it was great to see people of all ages out dancing and enjoying the show. Really great people.
I have never lived there, but here's what I have observed and what I have heard from my friends who do: It's a really tiny town, I think less than 500 people. It can be super windy, and it is really dark, especially in winter, it's in such a tight valley that the sun rises from the mountains quite late and sets behind them quite early. While people who have made permanent lives there have made great improvements to their homes, many of the rental houses are really old and are often cold in winter, or expensive to heat with old fuel oil heaters. All that being said, it is obviously quite beautiful, it was a very happy and welcoming practice and dinner place for our band that winter, and if you love to backcountry ski or ice climb, it's a world class place to be. I have never had the pizza there, but I do know Truffle Pigs makes pretty amazing food.
Myself and the Cosmichorus (V3 I forgot to say earlier) now reside in Revelstoke, BC
Really cool, thanks for sharing! You're a real mountain kinda guy hey, I dig that, I could be too I think. Lake Louise must have been an amazing place to live, what a beautiful and cool place in the world that is! I was thinking it must be dark in Field with the mountains so close and looming, that must be kinda cool though.. I just dig the idea of life there! Revelstoke seems like a really nice town too, we've only driven through or stopped for a burger kinda thing, but I love the scenery there, it's beautiful.
Well buddy, I guess you and I are gonna have to make a plan to try that Field pizza one day! *smile*
I just gotta say, it's so cool that you're so familiar with Field and the mountain areas, but then also the fact that you have a Cosmi v3.. geeez that's cool!
