British Columbia

History isn't about " reckoning". You can read, you can talk, you can ask questions. So do.. Read the history of the island, ask the First Nations ( Pentlatch , yes they did visit seasonally) and no, there really was, believe me, very little water) what the island was used for traditionaly. How do I know this? I lived on Hornby for a long time, I know the people on Hornby.

You are also assuming quite a lot about me. You have an assumption of my lifestyle, who I am and what I do. You asume that I don't like the " travelling" lifestyle. I've driven, flown, hitchiked, jumped trains for years without a home I do respect that lifestyle , I also know that when traveling the traveller should travel with respect, to learn the local customs and to walk softly. I could be wrong but your defensiveness and you " reckoning" about historical facts make it seem that you are bringing your luggage and personal shit (figuratively & literaly) along with you on your travels.

Your glib and facile little comment about the history lesson DOES actually tell me a great deal about you, I was told a story once about a traveller who " brought himself " along on his travels, he saw everything through his own predjudices and refused the information of people he met along the way, he went back to his home, he'd seen a lot but learned very little.

I'm glad that Hornby offered you a safe home, that's what we do, we've done it many times before and will do it many times again.

I really don't mean to antagonize you, I was just mentioning that the locals don't like people camping in the woods, it really does fuck up the island, with thirty or fourty thousand visitors a year evey night that a person camps in the woods on the fragile little island adds up. I'm sure you didn't think you were " fucking up" the island and I'm sure you didn't intend to, but it does have an effect.

Good luck on your travels.

May the wind be at your back.

 

I live in Victoria, anyone coming to BC needs to come to Vic, and the gulf islands. A little island life will do all well.

After all this is the most beautiful, and most chill place to be.

 

I would reccomend visiting the horne lake caverns. It does cost money but you go with a guide (in the good caves, the free\unguided caves have been ruined) and there are amazing crystal formations and an incredible feeling of being inside a mountain. It is hard to describe.

 

vancouver island.

 

im living in the central okanagan. if you love lots of hot weather and sunshine, this is the place to be... but there's a bit of a void in terms of interesting culture here. i just took a trip out in the south kootenays and that was great - hit up revelstoke for a night or two, take the highway south in the morning and cross on the ferry - so beautiful. passing through nakusp and whatnot is great as well. nelson wasn't THAT awesome, but I don't really know it that well anyways. I loved just camping in the Provincial parks and hanging out. they are completely dead if you go during the weekday - one that I like in particular was Yahk, south of Cranbrook.

my next trip is out to the islands, for sure. probably mid-july or something .

 

i would have to agree the kootenays is where its at. I just came back from there and it was unbelievable..

 

Vancouver Island definitely. So beautiful.

 

I'm working in Kitkatla until the end of summer, on Dolphin Island, off of Porcher Island, a 20 minute float plane ride south of Prince Rupert.

 

I live in Victoria, every day I think how I live in one of the most beautiful places ever. And forget about the amazing scenery and ocean, the weed is amazing and you smoke it walking down the street.

Today I say and smoked admist trees and flowers, ducks and peacocks, deer running in the distance, little paths and pretty benches. I love Victoria.

 

u know i'm stoned when i keep posting the same stuff to the same forum hahaha woops baked some pretty good cookies ya know

 

Never made it to Nelson, but nearby Castlegar last summer hosted the Our Way Home Reunion for Vietnam era war resisters. Never have I felt so welcomed and honoured.

Castlegar and surrounding areas were founded by Dukhobor immigrants about one hundred years ago, who refused service in the Russian army.

 

bc girl here

nelson and all of the koots are gorgeous...as are the okanagan, shuswap and the island....mmmm im missing my bc .....in alberta these days