we have made the round trip, we are back in Vancouver - British columbia, Canada. since the last blog; South of San Fransisco, we have stuck to the coast travelling north. we walked over the Golden Gate Bridge, went up and down the steep streets of S.F.walked through forests of the worlds tallest trees and along beaches that are out pirate movies, with moutains sticking up out of the sea. we did a day of dairy tours in California, saw sea lions, otters and yest...

WEDNESDAY - Calgary Stampede. we bought tickets to the afternoon rodeo and watched an Aussie bloke; Andrew Benger (something like that), win the junior bareback broncs, and lots of other bull riding and barrel racing and steer wrestling events. lil old Harvey d*** ons doesnt have much on this! THURSDAY - drove in to Kananaskis country; southern end of the Rockies. we camped near some huge lakes that night, the camping ground puts on a ampitheatre, Steven "v...

Day 2 in Vancouver we arrived safely no problems - long flight from Auckland to L.A but we slept most of the way, got through the tight customs in the U.S airport. landed in Vancouver about 6.30pm Monday night; it doesn't get dark here until 10pm so we were a bit confused. we are staying at the Hostel International backpackers right in the centre of the city, its clean comfortable; on a dodgy street with sex shops, nighclubs and beggers (not like lil old Karrida...