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“When it says, ‘Slow’, it means it,” we were cautioned several times in Nanaimo before setting out on the twisting, two-lane Vancouver Islan...

Nanaimo – a harbor town on Vancouver Island’s east coast with a name that sounds like a children’s chant:  “na-NI-moe” and rhymes with ‘the...

Surfers, ocean waves, sandy beaches, blue skies, high hotel prices – sounds pretty much like Hawaii, doesn’t it? What it hadn’t sounded...

We set out on one of our famous spur-of-the-moment road  trips last week, heading north to explore parts of Canada’s Vancouver Island.   We’...

One of the many good things about Washington State is its proximity to Canada. In Seattle, we are about a two hour drive or 30-minute fligh...

We’d decided to do something different for my birthday: stay home. And we stuck to that plan until 1 p.m. when we did something so spontan...