For the landlovers
British Columbia stretches from Washington up to the southern tip of Alaska along the west coast of Canada. With the ocean on one side and the Rocky Mountains on the other, there’s all manner of hills, prairie, forests, and beaches in between, often stacked right up on top of each other. We drove up the western coastline of Vancouver Island yesterday and took gravel roads down to hidden coves where waves crash on smooth pebbles, cliffs jutting up from the water occlude the distance, and pup tents dot the sand along down the forest’s edge-surfers camping here more to relax than ride. There are cougars and bears along the trails (which we didn’t see, thank goodness) and even in the city you’ll find ducks, loons, geese, and rabbits all over (whereas I’m used to dingoes, stray dogs, and giant cockroaches).