The coastal forests of northern British Columbia are thick and green, nourished by regular rains year round rains that continue throughout the summer. Except the week we were there onboard the MV Cascadia out of Kitimat. We had no rain at all, which amazed the crew because the previous trips that summer had all had … Continue reading Great Bear Rainforest: Water, Water, Everywhere

Not bear tracks; this was Wolf Track Beach, and it deserves its name. There were tracks everywhere on the clean white sand. The crew said that the tracks were always there but they had never seen the wolves. The coastal wolves of British Columbia, commonly known as “sea wolves”, are a genetically distinct population from … Continue reading Great Bear Rainforest: Tracks on the Beach

Humpback whales rubbing up against our boat hull. Coastal wolves loping along a foggy beach. A grizzly bear crossing the river in a morning haze of insects. Enormous fin whales slipping silently through glacier-fed waters. Thousand meter cliffs intersected by multiple cascading waterfalls. All those experiences are possible when exploring the narrow inlets of the … Continue reading The Great Bear Rainforest: It’s Grrreat!

RV trailer owners who tow with an EV know that their driving range is severely curtailed; my experience is that instead of 450km/280m of range with nothing hitched up, when towing at 55mph on a level, dry road I can only drive about 140m/225km (of course gas cars suffer from similar range loss!). But what … Continue reading The Self-Powered RV Future: It’s Coming

“Beautiful British Columbia”: that’s what the provincial license plates say, and over the past year of living there I agree. No longer in California, our trailer trips are now taken from our new home in Vancouver. Which means a few changes in trailer storage management, including the need to winterize! Even at sea level there … Continue reading Beautiful British Columbia: it is Real and it is Spectacular

This post has little to do with our ”electric travels” but after 15 months of no posts I felt it was time to reboot the blog. Regarding the title of the post of course every year is ”like no other”, so what does that phrase really mean? And yet, at least for me and I … Continue reading Reflections On a Year Like No Other

It was a big pile of poop. Fresh. And there is only one animal in the redwood forests of Northern California that could produce it; the black bear. Of course black bears rarely bother humans, unless a mother with cubs is surprised by people suddenly appearing in her neighborhood. So naturally we immediately started loudly … Continue reading Big Trees, Spotted Slugs, and Big Scat