North America 45 picture monastery Kuti    Simply sumptuous     While I was waiting for the pick up I got chatting to a high school girl who's parents were doctors. She explained the the local Uni had quite a low qualification entry, and she would like to go to Vancouver...

North America 44 Kamloops Valley and the Thompson River   Real or True, you decide.   I'm back at that motel and I know Kamloops the hard way as this town is built on hills. My mistake was I didn't check out where the monastery actually was because its quite a...

North America 43  picture the simple station    No room at the inn   Motels mean TV  and popular culture and this time it's the Big Band era on Public Broadcasting, now I can put faces to those delicious times listening to AFN ( American Forces Network )  under the bed...

North America 42  picture station   It's only a bus ride     A nice farewell to my hosts, John copied a detailed map via Prospect Park, but I chickened out as cycling through the city heavy loaded seems unnecessary, so it's the Seabus again, without Denny, but a couple of...

North America 41 picture of Denny    With real cyclists again.     Traveling around BC makes me wonder where all the money comes from? Everyone seems to be living in a kind of holiday environment, with these lovely waterfront homes on so many islands scattered all over. Perhaps all those...