Vancouver Island Summer 2012

This summer we stayed at The Living Forest Campground and made it our home base to work part time, me at my electronics business and Anne at her online endeavors. http://annemckinnell.com/blog/

But we did manage a couple great trips to explore what awesome beauty this area has to offer. A week was spent in Strathcona Provincial Park, where the highlight was the waterfalls powered by a heavy summer runoff.

A month later saw us on Quadra and Cortes Islands exploring the beaches and enjoying the sunshine.

More photos here and here

November 1st we depart for a six month adventure touring the South West US Desert!

 

The trip ends

Well all good things come to an end and so does our fabulous year long odyssey around the US and Canada.  We left Utah late May as the desert heat began to turn up. We made a bee line for the coast settling for a week or so in the Northern California foothills near Monterey.

After that we meandered our way home to Vancouver Island up highway 101. Highway 101 is like an old friend now as we have travelled it may times and love the scenery and rving along the Oregon coast.

It was a bittersweet end to an amazing journey. Anne's longtime companion Oscar the beagle succumbed to his many ailments and left us in Seaside, Oregon after a great time on the beaches of Crescent City, Ca and Canon Beach.  RIP old buddy.

 

We have decided that the RV trip was so much fun we are going to continue this winter and head down and explore the US SouthWest, so stay tuned. :)