Back into the States

Hello my friends.

The queen of England welcomed us as we walked our first steps on the Canadian territory,
not the queen herself of course, but this wonderful picture in the hall of the customs office.

Vancouver island was one of these experience that you know you'll remember for a very very long time.
Through our peregrinations, we met Luke, when he heard we were doing this world travel, trying to see the world as our eyes would, he decided to show us what his eyes saw for years and years.

Luke grew up on this far west, the one where no roads bring, far on the west coast of Vancouver island.
To go there, you need to ride 1h30 on lugging road, then take your boat and surf the inlets waves for 45min.

One day, when my english will be good enough for me to write a book, I may be able to describe with the right terms what we experienced in this end of the world.
It was simply magical.
I'll always remember the colors, the grey, the green, the blue, the mountains, the ocean, the killer whales, the bears, the bold eagles, the sea lions, the sea otters, just all this harmony between forces, this magical endless.

Thank you Luke for this magical gift.

Thank you nature for your beauty.


We had to come back to America,
we made the choice to sell the car and keep on going hitch-hiking,
few reasons for that: too much money just flew away in gas expense,
but the more important,
being stucked into a canned box with four wheels isn't the best way to reach people,
from the unknown and the unsecure comes the faith.

The american border got harder than what we thought it would be,
I had no problem with visa, as I came back to France this summer, I have a new american visa till next march,
but Aubin, after spending six months in the USA, and only two weeks in Canada, the customs didn't want to let him in, saying that they didn't have enough proof that he was really living in France.
After lots of hour of discussion, they finally gave Aubin a five days visa,
just enough for him to come with me to Seattle, fix some few stuffs that had to be fixed on the car prior to be sold.
Aubin left yesterday and got back to Vancouver where he's hosted by Tracey and Cathy, very nice girls who hosted us already through couchsurfing.com.

I'll have to stay till the car is sold, then I'll join Aubin and we'll hitch-hike across Canada to the eastern coast.


By the way, if you have any contact in Canada, anybody who would be Ok to host two travelers.
Or if you know any place that is really worth it, please let us know.

If you know anybody around Seattle who would like a Toyota 4runner of 1993, let us know too.


Today, I had time to completely change the blog's aspect, if you could tell me what you think about it.
There is now a map showing where we are in the world, and where we have been through, as our roads where not the same in the USA, AUbin still have to draw his road down.

There are also some beautiful pictures of Vancouver Island, and all the rest of the trip on the blog, if you click on them you'll be able to see them bigger.

We've been putting some few videos on youtube.com
you can find them with the keywords: inspired wanders


Breathing is so good...

Peace
Harmony

Seb

Hello Canada

We arrived into the Hoh rainforest in the Olympic National Park Washington Thusday 23rd of September,
exactly a year and a month before we had first arrived in Cuba.

The morning was amazingly sunny.

After preparing ourselves for a long hike we finally started our 35miles round trip hike.

The plan was to hike all the way to the blue glacier which is part of the Olympus peak.

We arrived a mile to the end of the hike by 4:30pm

There was no way to continue we had to go back.

The view on the glacier was beautiful and the hike through the rain forest and the giant tree as well.

We arrived back to the car around 11:45pm after a 34miles hike our thought was only sleeping.

We slept in the car and left in the morning.

We arrived in the late evening in Vancouver Canada after we passed the border, luckily with no difficulty.

Tracey and Katie our host in Vancouver are very friendly and we already spend three night there.

This morning we took the ferry to Vancouver Island were we going to spend a couple of days here.

And the adventure continues.

Aubin

Green

Salutation,
it's so great to be surrounded by green.
On a side the ocean, and on the other, the green forest.
We arrived yesterday into Washington state.

We've been welcomed by Hal and his family in Sheridan,OR,
and watched our first football game, the high school game of his son Patrick.

Then we drove to Portland, big very nice city.
And through this great website: couchsurfing.com, we were welcomed by Tamara, Alice and Joey.
Nice time with our very funny hosts.

We're now going into the direction of Olympic nat. park, trying to stay dry into the rainforest.

We'll go through Seattle and then to Vancouver.

If you know anybody in one of these area who would like to host us, please let us know.

Green is great.

Peace
Harmony
Seb

New pictures

There are new pictures on the right below.
Don't forget to click on them to get them bigger.

On the road again (California)

Hello all of you.

We left San Francisco sunday with Aubin's car, in the direction of Vancouver.
His visa ends on the 26th of september, so we'll be in Canada for this time.

We're right now in Mckinleyville, a bit north of Eureka, CA.
We are hosted by some people through the website couchsurfing.
The two days before that we've been knocking on people's door, and we've been meeting really nice people.

We'll stay along the coast of the Pacific till Canada, it's full of fog, but so beautiful.

Contact us if you know peope who would like to welcome us.

Peace

Seb

Fly away

Hello all of you.

These past days have been a lot of emotion.

I've been learning few weeks ago that my grandma got a cancer, and was at the hospital.

Her sickness went worst and worst, and I decided the 3rd of july, while I was in Zion nat. park to come back to France to stay beside her.
I took a flight from San Francisco on the 15th of july.

Wednesday the 16th of July, I was in Paris, and I could hug my grandma tell her all the love I feel for her.

She must have been waiting for me,
she died saturday 19th of july, at 2:40am.

I'll stay for a while beside my grandpa,
he's completely shocked, and he needs help to recover.

My return flight to SF is on the 7th of september.

That was time for my grandma to fly away.
Thanks to her for all the love she provided to us.

The photo has been taken two years ago, from the left to the right: my sister, my father, my aunt, my grandma, me, and my grandfather.

Peace
Harmony

Southern Utah

Hello



my travel is still so wonderful.



I don't have much time so I'll do quick.



I've been through Durango,

then spent a day in the Mesa Verde nat park,

and then 4 days with a Navajo family on the Navajo nation, on southern-east Utah.

They were wonderful,

but the poverty on the nation is very sad,

they deserve much better than that.



Then I've spent a week in Moab,

and met some really amazing people who shared a lot with me.



Now I'm in Hanksville, UT,

tomorrow will be Capitol reef nat park,

then Bryce canyon

and the Grand Canyon, north rim.



I would like to share with you all the wonderful things that I live,

but I don't have time now,

so I'll keep that for me for a time.



Life is beautiful



Harmony



Seb