Legs Hurt After Wearing Heels

Vancouver Iceland

It is finally ready: We are in Vancouver for our cousin and have at their access to the Internet, so we can report back from our trip.

First impressions of Canada

In Washington, we instead drove on Interstate 5 through Seattle on the scenic # 101 of the east side of the Oympic National Parks along adhered to the ferry from Townsend to Keystone and then from Anacortes to Sidney (Vancouver Iceland). (. The card next door is the route this time, blue, marked the ferry route yellow Double-she can be enlarged.) One week we spent on the west coast of the island (Pacific Rim National Park) in the rain forest, which made its name: Sometimes some sunshine, especially in the morning, but then rain and again rain. That has to be ultimately, if the annual target of 400 cm of rainfall to be met. The discs start to run and we heat, not because it is cool, but to expel the moisture. Now we yearn
us a little bit back to the sun and the heat of the South, the attentive and careful driving Oregon - our dear Canadian friends like us that remark forgive - the consistently excellent information, the competent and willing information, the embarrassing Clean and quiet of the campgrounds, etc. have to revise our budget, we Camp Grounds and food, mail and phone are more expensive gasoline to 30% in the U.S.. That the summer weather has not arrived, but we give the Canadians, however, no debt, and all known and friendly Canadians are so fond of how the Oregon! And we are sure that we revise up our arrival in Alaska, our first impressions of Canada nor have. A positive first impression: there are farmers' markets, where we can buy fresh vegetables and salad of excellent quality and surprisingly affordable prices. Furthermore, there are phones with display, in which we - when we talk again - can we see more than 35 digits, we need to select prepaycard with the control, and. More to come hopefully.


snails, eagles, whales and dinosaurs
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to 20 cm long and 120 g heavy yellow snails, the banana slugs, we meet in the rain forest on Vancouver Iceland at every turn. Also Bald Eagles, the emblem of the United States, we can observe, even at close Near a beauty that is devouring the meadow beside the road its prey. Since we're lost and is no traffic on the road, we can stop and watch at your leisure.

Beautiful is the statement made by the chief of the were on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Iceland-based tribe of the Nuu-chah-nulth-aht (People along the mountains), Mamie Charleson, why snails have poor eyesight and Adler good: "A long time ago eagle could not see so well. Eagle went to snail and asked if he could borrow snail's eyes for a few minutes to see what it was like to see well Sun Snail let borrow his eagle eyes eagle never gave snail but his eyes back. That is why to this day snails are blind and eagles have sharp eyes. "

All vegetation is denser and stronger. At the high ferns, the giant leaves of the Skunk Cabbage (Lysichitum americanum) and the lichen and moss as shrouded with curtains giant trees, we feel puts us in the Jurassic period. We would not be surprised if suddenly on our hikes through the rain forest instead of a bear between the trees, bushes and ferns seem like a dinosaur. The short trails are excellent by the way: It goes for miles up the stairs, down stairs, with wooden walkways and bridges. Information panels give us important information again and again and give us knowledge so that we feel at home here soon. And the rain, which forces us to daily rest periods between the tours, we have almost got used to. Finally, we can drink read in peace and warmth in our RV and coffee or tea.
We always impressed with the beautiful Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) from the family of Cupressaceae, with its reddish wood, especially because the Indians this was useful in many ways. A beautiful legend illustrates this: "There was a real good man who was always helping others. Whenever they needed, he gave, when they wanted, he gave them food and clothing. When the Great Spirit saw this, he said, That one has done his work, when he and blogs where he is buried, a cedar tree will grow and be useful to the people - at the roots for baskets, the bark for clothing, the wood for shelter '"

At the Wickaninnish Beach. Pacific Rim Park we visit the Visitor Center to the above all the culture of the Nuu-chah-nulth-aht and devotes particular method of whaling. Their leader was called Wickaninnish important. The exhibition is very informative. The whales were long boats (dugout cedar) from prisoners. The boat was manufactured by Kwiisthu issued, a 98jährigen chief. the rope of a harpoon four balloons were attached to sealskin, which the whale harpooned the plunge difficult and it tired. With a long wooden sword he severed the tendons were first to the tail fin to paralyze him, and then directly targeted with a kick, an iron blade under the left fin pushed into the heart. This method was up to the 20th Century applied. Today these Indians live in wooden houses on the beautiful sea. Boats, we see no more. Instead of whales they catch now probably tourists. That should be easier and more profitable.

Today Sunday is Father's Day in Canada. On this occasion, our cousin Monica and her husband David on the eve of relatives and acquaintances - organized a great barbecue - and of course to our greeting.
morning Monday's northward journey. We take quite a direct way to Prince George, Fort St. John, Watson Lake Whitehorse, Dawson City, Tok to Fairbanks, we will reach to 4,000 km journey in about three weeks. We hope that we find on this lonely stretch even Internet access.