by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog
June 21st 2023, Whitehorse, The Yukon. There are times riding Highway 37 deep into British Columbia and nearing the crossing into The Yukon when everything you see all around you, and I mean for miles and miles and miles, appears to be utterly devoid of people, or any...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog
June 19th 2023, Moricetown, British Columbia. The morning I left Jasper in Alberta, the day didn’t seem to know what to do with itself. One minute the sun was beating down on the mountains, picking out all the interesting visual details; the next minute, gloomy...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 22, 2023 | Blog
June 16th 2023, Nelson, British Columbia. Behind the forest trees that line the road and cover the mountains south of Nelson in Canada’s British Columbia, a cannabis production facility is expanding by about 40 per cent. Large earth movers are carving a new road...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 21, 2023 | Blog
June 16th 2023, Jasper, Alberta. When I left Nelson, I had a choice: go directly north west and re-join my original, if somewhat notional, route north from Vancouver — which was pretty much direct to the Yukon, to Whitehorse, then Dawson City and then left, as...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog
14th June 2023, Nelson. Nelson’s old post office, a solid three storey granite and red brick building with a turret, stands on the corner of Vernon and Ward streets, bang in the middle of the small town/city in British Columbia. Most of the 1902 building is...
