A New Paint Job Before Hitting The Road!

How Do We Drive Across Canada?

Buy RV: $15,000

Rent RV: $8000

Buy & Convert Old Cube Truck: $3500

Buy Large 1994 Van & Convert: $1500

Buy Old Chevy Van and throw our bed in the back: Under $1000 SOLD!

We also met up with some new friends who offered to paint it for us!

New Paint Job!

Pathway to winter wonderland

Whistler Olympic Plaza

"Canada ?"

Canada  is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9.9 million square kilometres, Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.

The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and reaffirmed by theStatute of Westminster of 1931, which declared self-governing dominions within the British Empire to be equal. The Canada Act of 1982 finally severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament.

Canada is a federal state that is governed as a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual nation with both English and French as official languages at the federal level. One of the world's most highly-developed countries, Canada has a diversified economy that is reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade – particularly with the United States, with which Canada has had a long and complex relationship. It is a member of the G7, G8, G20, NATO, OECD, WTO, Commonwealth of Nations, Francophonie, OAS, APEC, and UN. With the sixth-highest Human Development Index globally, Canada has one of the highest standards of living and per capita income in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

3D

3D vision technology has been with us since the 1800s and the basic concept is relatively simple. In everyday life, you see things with both of your eyes. Since the average human eyes are separated by about 2 1/2 inches, this slightly different viewpoint for each eye sends two slightly different images to the human brain (also called stereoscopic imagery). The brain then fuses the two images together and you perceive an image of a single object with depth.

Move on! We got to move on.

Rain

Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain

"Surfs Up Vancouer"

Hold on to your roots

Snow Day Vancouver

First time that i felt in love with Vancouver "March 2010"

Vancouver

Rain, and plain we stand there in our brain

Thinking about our day, hoping to stay

Just a minute on our way

Round and round, we go homeward bound

At speeds so high, wishing to fly

Our journey just passing us by

But then there is he, and those who breath

The beauty they see, calm they be

Aware of what it means to be free

A branch out of reach, police the beach

Rich and lean, grey and green

Two sides of the same damn machine 

There's more beneath, once past the teeth

A hint of light, a ripped tight

Like a dream from the middle of night

A place of peace, out on lease

Wanting to love, holding our glove

Winking down at us from above.

Keep Moving Forward

Law

"You are responsible for such external authorities as religion, politics, morality, for such authorities as economic and social standards. Out of your emptiness, out of your incompleteness, you have created these external standards from which you now try to free yourself.By evolving, by developing, by growing away from them you want to create an inner law for yourself. As you come to understand external standards, you want to liberate yourself from them and to develop your own inner standard. This inner standard, which you call 'spiritual reality,' you identify with a cosmic law, which means that you create but another division, another duality. So you first create an external law, and then you seek to outgrow it by developing an inner law... To me, the man who is bound either by an external or an inner law is confined in a prison; he is held by an illusion." First Talk at Alpino, 1933 Jiddu Krishnamurtia

Friends

Art on the Wall

Hawk Downtown Vancouver

30 years old

I will be 30 years old this Sunday. This is not old, and not young, but age enough to understand how things work and what life is about.   

I spent most of my life in Canada. My childhood was filled with playing, imagining and learning the basics of life and survival.  In my teens I began to experience the good and bad that Canadian society offers. I lost control of emotions and my need for dependence. I pleased some and rebelled against others, I dreamed about possibilities, and did not waste any time. My 20’s were different. They were full of thinking, developing principles and testing out different ways of living. I traveled the world, met diverse people and learned how to love. It’s now a new era and time to live by these new principles I’ve uncovered over the last 30 years.

The most important principles to live my life by come from my own experience. They root themselves in my soul when I step back, look and listen. I’ve noticed the so-called comforts that come with money, careers, homes, and possessions are actually becoming discomforting to me. Money is confusing as my bank account never seems to be in my control. Rent and basic expenses seem overpriced. Eighty percent of my time is taken up doing something I am not fulfilled by. My body and mind are suffering the pain of too much stress and too little attention. My friends give me a sense of community but my community does not feel like my friend. 

I have realized that Freedom is not something that is fought for, declared, taken away or given. Freedom is inside of everyone. It appears the minute we decide to recognize it inside of ourselves. This is why I have decided to stop working for money or a career, to get out of contracts that imprison me, to take care of my body and mind, to nurture and invest in the earth.  I have decided to leave my job, apartment, belongings, dependence on money, and comforts behind to travel across this country and discover my community. 

I am understanding the value in community is not in drawing lines to keep people out neither accepting everyone into your life. Rather, community is about understanding our small part within a bigger organism. We are dependent on each other and the earth. We will live better and longer the more we support each other. 

Currently “Canada” represents merely a border, a stereotype, a line drawn in the snow rather than a sense of communal culture and inter-dependence. I know there’s more beneath the surface of Canada, much more than maple syrup, and I’m excited to find out!

"I Have a Dream"

La Vita e Bella

Stopping for a moment in Van