June 20, 2015

What happened…

Andrew writes:We arrived in Vancouver after transferring through Toronto, Canada and about 11 hours in the air. Friends of ours (Dorothy and Sven) picked us up, and we spent the next 5 days staying with them in North Vancouver while we got ready to tackle the next part of our trip. The Rockies. Readers may remember that part of the original plan when we set out from Inuvik was to go to Jasper, but we got snowed out because it was too late in the season.

Looking at the weather forecast for Jasper, it looks like it’s still snowing there at the higher elevations, so we have added some of our gear from our trip to the Arctic last year. In total I think our gear weights are 32kg for me, and Amanda has 33kg. This is without food, or water. In addition, I’m going to try bringing the kite board gear, which is another 10kg. I’ll be using an Extrawheel trailer for this.

People have been asking us over the last few days, when are we leaving and how will we get there.. We aren’t sure of which route we’re going to take out of Vancouver to get to the Rockies, but we have a few options, all of which are tried-tested-and-true. As for when? Once again, we’re enjoying our time with family and friends and feel very fortunate that we are able to spend this time with them. When we set out almost a year ago, we thought we wouldn’t see anyone for 10 years! Now we’ve been blessed with visiting Vancouver three times in 10 months.

We are looking forward to sharing our next leg of our journey with everyone, and can’t wait to see what the world has in store for us!

Today’s Photographs

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