I set out that morning to explore a number of lakes down to the southwest of Courtenay. There are quite a few including Comox lake, Great Central lake, Elsie Lake and National Lake. As I got to the south end of Comox lake the wind really picked up from the Southwest and there was an…

I woke up with mixed emotions.  This was to be the day I would fly back into the US.  I was not at all happy to have this wonderful adventure winding down, but at the same time after a month I was also feeling ready to get back home. I had filed my online Homeland…

I woke up to a beautiful but cool and breezy morning. As I was packing things up, the airport attendant that goes around to all the planes and leaves a overnight fee envelope ($10) on each plane came by. As he was walking up I said “OH, I just got here”. He looked a little…

I woke up before my 4:45 a.m. alarm, daydreaming about the day before and enjoying anticipation of the flight I had before me. I had looked at quite a few smoke forecasting websites the night before and it looked like I would have a lot of smoke all across Southern Oregon and Northern California stretching…