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...
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...
