Vancouver Island – Make Like An Ape Man

Cormorant & Malcolm Islands

Posted by Duwan Posted on October 7, 2022 6 Comments

Posted in British Columbia, Canada, Travel On The Dirt Tagged Birds, First Nations, museum, Native Americans, Public Art, Vancouver Island, Wildlife

June 20 – 23, 2022. One of the cool things about being a nomad is meeting other nomads from all sorts of places. It is always fun to converge with them on the road. But sometimes our nomad friends have…

Duncan & Nanaimo

Posted by Duwan Posted on October 3, 2022 6 Comments

Posted in British Columbia, Canada, Travel On The Dirt Tagged birding, Birds, British Columbia, hiking, Kayaking, Public Art, Totem Poles, Vancouver Island, Walking

June 5 & June 13 -14, 2022. Today we are rolling the clock back to June to tell you more about our trip around Vancouver Island. In previous posts, I wrote about visiting British Columbia’s amazing capital city, Victoria, and…

Vancouver Island Provincial Parks

Posted by Duwan Posted on August 4, 2022 8 Comments

Posted in British Columbia, Canada, Travel On The Dirt Tagged Beach, parks, tidepooling, Vancouver Island, waterfall, Wildlife

June 6 – June 17, 2022, Vancouver Island, BC. Vancouver Island has a lot of parks. According to information I found on the web there are 128 Provincial Parks (this includes Marine Provincial Parks and a few Ecological Reserves but…

Victoria

Posted by Duwan Posted on July 26, 2022 10 Comments

Posted in British Columbia, Canada, Travel On The Dirt Tagged Art, city, culture, History, park, Public Art, street music, Vancouver Island, Victoria

June 3 & 4, 2022, Victoria, British Columbia. If you have been following along you probably know that in June we took a vehicle ferry to Vancouver Island. Our first stop was Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. What can…

Our Route to Alaska

Posted by Duwan Posted on July 22, 2022 6 Comments

Posted in Alaska, British Columbia, Canada, Travel On The Dirt, United States, Yukon Tagged Border Crossing, Canada, Ferry, highways, travel routes, van life, Vancouver Island, Wildlife

June 3 – July 6, 2022. There are lots of ways to get to Alaska. One of the most popular is to drive to Prince George, British Columbia in Canada, and then drive east on to Dawson Creek, BC. This…

Nomad Life & Expenses June 2022

Posted by Duwan Posted on July 18, 2022 10 Comments

Posted in British Columbia, Canada, Nomad Life & Expenses, Nomading Tagged boondocking, Border Crossing, British Columbia, Camping, Canada, Free Camping, friends, van life, Vancouver Island

We made it to Alaska! We took an unconventional route to get here. After leaving our friends, Doug and Jackie, in Seattle on June 2nd we drove to Port Angeles in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State and took a…