by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 14, 2023 | Blog
June 13th 2023, Nelson, British Columbia. It is mosquito season right now in Canada, and sometimes, especially close to a river in the early evening, the little bastards really have a field day. That was the case when I pulled into the Kettle River RV park and...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 12, 2023 | Blog
June 4th 2023, Kettle River, British Colombia. It’s early days but Canada is turning out to be everything I thought — hoped — it would be: a place of extraordinarily beautiful countryside full of snow-topped Alpine mountains, their slopes blanketed...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog
June 2nd 2023, Ilwaco, Washington state I scooted up Interstate 5 and went straight through, or rather past, the Oregon capital, Portland. My loss, I expect, but I just couldn’t see any reason to delve into another city, so I kept on going — crossing the...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jun 1, 2023 | Blog
May 28th 2023, Sunset Cove, Oregon. Oregon is the America of my youthful memory. It was fashioned in my mind in dentist and doctor’s waiting rooms where lying about as distractions to make the time pass were copies of National Geographic magazine. And in those...
by PeterMurtagh-user | May 31, 2023 | Blog
I left David and Shao-ying revitalised and full of optimism about life and people and the way ahead. My mood was helped when, a fellow in Mendocino said that a guy who ran a bike shop beside the gas station in Arena — “He’s great; knows about...
