Ferry happiness, with a rad new black tee (one of my favourite local indies)

English Bay in all its other-worldly glory

Rathtrevor Park near Nanaimo

Medium two-cream, please and thank you! One of a hundred I put back this summer

Not just the trucks and the clothes are super-sized

Those infamous 9 boxes that I paid to store for 7 years. Thanks for helping me get them out Rees (and for storing a couple stragglers, Nico and Mom & Dad)

View to North Vancouver from the Stanley Park Seawall

Get yer new house folks. 'Starting from the $1.2M's...' I can't believe anyone can print that without breaking out into laughter. WTF

View from the Seawall to Lions Gate Bridge and beyond to West Van and the British Properties

Another epic Lions Gate Bridge view from the Seawall

Sunburst pose in front of the 2010 Olympic Inukshuk

The view from Rees' place where I stayed in the first week

Ferry trip number 1 to Nanaimo and the Island beyond

Tinkling on Linda's piano (with one of her beautiful pieces). Actually I was going to record 'So Courageous' on piano but I decided that I am not a good piano player.

The view from down the street, in Qualicum Beach. I am not at all a flaggy kind of guy (!!!) but this one turned out pretty epic

A bloody expensive rasher of bacon. This was at the bottom of an entire bacon section-- yes, there is a bacon section in the Quality Foods in Qualicum

Epic view from the BC Ferry

One of my favourite alcohol-free beers... the President's Choice 'Red Brew'

Until Wendy told me this sticker had to do with the HOV lanes (high-occupancy vehicle) I couldn't believe how silly this sticker was. I still think it's pretty goofy.

When we would walk along Lynn Valley Road (or drive, for that matter) to get to school as kids we would always pass this intersection. Somehow walking this road back to the Boulevard after pints at the Black Bear this time seemed to take hella less time

I arrived at the Bus Station to catch the EBus from Vancouver to Kelowna at 5am... a pretty grandiose old place down on the Eastside. I wish the trains were still running.

Epic drive along Okanagan Lake from Kelowna to Penticton with Zarto

This was an elk I think?.. we saw four or five wild animals in the space of an hour, heading up to Rossland

The kind of rainy drive along a Canadian stretch of highway that just begs for a Blue Rodeo song

More Blue Rodeo, although this one is also pretty Hip

Hamburg's finest industrial brewery, represented in the Okanagan! That was a surprise. For the record, you cannot get this super-charged 7.0% beer in Europe

Doing 18 holes of frisbee golf with Zarto in Rossland

We were walking back from the bar in downtown Rossie and Lynn had this great idea to chalk-trace me. I provided the wordiness

This one's for you Dan-- next stop, Idstein!

Cruising the BC Autobahn

Trucks! Trucks! Trucky truck trucks!

Snapped from the bus

Up on the farm with Jenette in Kamloops

Along the canyons and through the hills with Giulius

Wind-blown and blown away

A super rad truck in Lilloet

Convoy kids, Lillooet

Never been a better time to check those brakes, foo

Peach? Orange? What was that tint again? I feel like going for a run every time I see this picture (I don't see it very often)

Taking in Pavilion Lake before bravely swimming er

Breath-taking drive along the Duffy Lake Road

More breath-taking Duffy Lake

A lake which was really schön

Distance narrowing along our way to Squam! Great drive with the G-ster

Read it and remember, folks. Feeding bears is for inconsiderate idiots

Cat Lake and the best swim of the summer. G and I were surrounded by memories of teenage hooliganism the whole time. Those were some of the best days of my life.

I found a moment to dine at Andrea's and have a classic lasags-- every bit as mind blowing as it was 30 years ago. The vibe is gone and the underage drinking is no more but wow, just wow.

The view from Keith's... a stunning perspective of the city that I had never taken in before

This mind-warping structure is just one of several crazy architectural works in Vancouver. I just don't get how they can make things like this stand.

Riding the Seawall along False Creek... I love this quiet little in-between stretch between Science World and English Bay. I used to ride over the Burrard Street bridge all the time which is WAY BETTER since they put in the bike lanes.

Sundown with tons of chilling Vancouverites on the edge of English Bay

My gorgeous crash pad at Nico & Ari's, with view to English Bay

Marlene took this one of me having just such a beautiful time with friends at the Vancouver show up on top, at Nico & Ari's. Insane location and just so much love floating around!