Since leaving Heather and the town of Helena, in Montana, on Sunday evening, time has become merely a concept. Days have turned into nights simply by changing the display on my watch as we’ve travelled across the globe. In Seattle, we didn’t feel that we’d managed to make the best of all the facilities from… Read more

When someone makes you personalised pancakes for breakfast, you know you’re on for the start of a great day. Especially when it’s accompanied by one of Heather’s hand crafted morning coffees (rumoured to be the best in Montana) and served up with loads of maple syrup and scrambled eggs. It was no surprise to me… Read more

Wow. What a day. Experiencing Montana family life with Heather and her family. A mixture of smoke from far away forest fires and overnight rain had dampen down the views from the front door, but spirits were still sky high. It was great to be hangout with Heather as so much has changed since we… Read more

Super exciting to be travelling across country in a ‘smallish’ propeller plane to Helena, Montana today.  Catching the flight required quite an early start from Anna’s in Bremerton as we had to catch an early ferry. Once in Seattle we had a bit of time to take a breather and wake up, in the comfy… Read more

Had planned to go sea kayaking today from Silverdale (near Bremerton), but for various reasons, we decided to have a more chilled day. In an attempt to be semi-active, we did try to take a swim at Kitsap Lake, but although it looked great, there were signs saying to stay out of the water due… Read more

We pulled out the climbing kit for the last time in Canada this morning, back at Smoke Bluffs. We figured we just had time for a few last climbs before heading south. We did two really enjoyable routes, although they were much harder without the ‘hand jammies’ that we’d been borrowing recently, to protect the… Read more