Tonight, after a very long day and too much wine, it is time to talk about my local vacation in 2017.
The first time we went to SE Asia we met a woman from the UK who my wife became good friends with.
Facebook is useful for keeping in touch with such people and due to being “redundant” at her job she decided to take 6 weeks off and fly to Boston, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Vancouver Island to see various people she had met on her 9 month journey through Asia, Australia, and South America in 2014/2015.
So, our friend arrived in Vancouver and my wife went over to stay with her before I joined them the following day. As I grew up in Vancouver and despise the city as overhyped boredom I was happy to let the girls have some fun on their own.
Taking the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshooe Bay, they met me at the *$’s and we blew past dullsville on our way to Kelowna. This is September 9th, I think, and we would spend a few days there drinking wine from Gray Monk to Ancient Hill, Mission Hills, Mt Boucherie, Quails Gate in Kelowna all the way to La Stella, Silversage, Stoneboat in Osoyoos/Oliver.
Then it was off to Whistler. On the way, stopped in Merritt which is a dusty cowboy town. A tumbleweed literally hit our car while coming into town.
Made it to Whistler for the usual: peak to peak tram, grizzly beer, Scandanav spa and massage.
Then it was time to go home to the Island where we would day trip to Tofino, Comox, surrounding areas....
Finally we ended in Victoria before she flew back home to London.
Had a great time with a nice Italian dinner at Il Terrazzo and a whale tour off the coast which eventually landed at Butchart Gardens for a tour and bus ride back to the city.
It was a good time and fun to play tourist in our own backyard even if Canada is boring AF.