It is reputed that during the 1860s, Barkerville, British Columbia, was the biggest city west of Chicago and north of San Francisco. A boom town at the foot of the Cariboo Mountains, it was bursting with prospectors seeking their fortunes in the gold fields – and plenty of others seeking their fortunes from the prospectors.
These [...]
If you live in Vancouver you can easily become blase to the awesome vitality of the place, and especially forgetful of its reputation as a multicultural feast for the taste buds. It’s a well deserved reputation that can get taken for granted even if you do remember that you live in what The Economist [...]
One of the special things about travelling is that you sometimes find real gems in your own backyard. Urban landscapes or country roads, they both provide the opportunity to explore your own surroundings. Such was the case here.
Although I live in a pretty fabulous pocket of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, I leave it almost [...]
"Take nothing but photos. Leave nothing but footprints. Break nothing but silence. Kill nothing but time."
- Explorer's Code
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