Shout-Outs

I just realized I never really took the time to properly say thank you to a whole bunch of people who deserve it. This road trip could not have been done without a whole bunch of people, so here's a list of those people, who, by the way, are awesome.
First of all I would like to say thank you to everybody who gave us suggestions, whether they were of things to buy for the trip, places to visit, things to add to the bucket list, music suggestions, or any other such suggestions. You all (hopefully) know who you are, and you made our trip a whole lot more enjoyable. Next I would like to say thank you to James' family, Sally, Brian, and Jessica. Thank you for believing in us and providing us with all of the support and supplies we needed! We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you to my father Robbert and my brother Ziggy for your continues support since day one. I would also like to give a shout out to Patrick and Teja for being such good homies, I truly wish you guys could have been there with us! Next I would like to give a HUGE thank you to David and Kaye for opening your home to us and showing us an awesome time in Santa Barbara, we both had a blast! Also a MASSIVE thank you to Chelle, Blu, Lily, Madison and Mojo for showing us such hospitality and letting us crash at your place! Thank you to anybody who took an interest in this trip, anybody that I've had a conversation with about it, and anybody who has read the blog, or furthermore is reading this. You are awesome! Also a big thanks to anybody who we met along the way on our journey, (except for the one man who didn't let us use their showers at his campsite... that was just rude), you probably won't ever read this, but thank you none the less. Thank you to The Headbanger for getting us through the entire trip, you had a few difficulties along the way, but you stuck in there, we couldn't have traveled in a more classy vehicle. Thanks to the mechanic for fixing up The Headbanger. Cheers to Starbucks for providing us with internet along the way. Last but definitely not least I would like to say THANK YOU to my partner in crime on this trip James! I had an such a great time on this trip and it was all thanks to you. If we hadn't decided to plan this and if you hadn't asked me to come along, we would never have experienced everything that we did which I will remember forever. I had the experience of a lifetime and I truly hope you did too!
I hope I did not forget to mention anybody here? If so I am sorry, and thank you for whatever you did to help us out. We don't appreciate it any less just because my memory fails me and I forgot to give you a shoutout on here.

Also peace to that deer we almost hit but didn't. I hope you're alive and well and enjoying some nice peaceful scenery away from hazards such as a camper van.

.. Until next journey..

What's to Come

Alrighty. So I haven't actually updated this blog in a long time, and I'm not too sure how many people still go on here? However it kind of felt like it was left unfinished, so here's the video I made of our experiences on the trip. Unfortunately I am no "pro blogger" thus still cannot figure out how to add the video directly to the blog, so I'll just copy/paste the URL on here. Just copy and paste it into the web address if you want to see it. (: 


https://vimeo.com/67418412

Preview of What's to Come

So here's a little preview to the video I will be making soon of the entire trip. This is from when we were at Cape Blanca making dinner, eating dinner, and watching the sunset with it's beautiful surroundings. Also the video is sped up, we don't really move that fast. (:
(Also I suggest watching the video on Youtube and not on the blog seeing as how the window is really small on the blog).

Bucket List Aftermath

Alright so I suppose it's time to check off some things on the bucket list. Unfortunately we did not get all of them done, and looking at it now I really wonder why we didn't do some of the ones we never got to. We had to alter it a little bit and we did add a few things onto the list. But we did more than 2/3, so that's not too bad I guess. If it has an "[x]" next to it, it means we did it, if it has a ":(" next to it, well I think that's self explanatory.
For some reason we never wrote this list down so some of the things on here were simply not completed because we couldn't remember what they were. The others we just didn't have the balls to do.

- Get kicked off of somebody's property [x]
- See the Golden Gate Bridge [x]
- Make it back home [x]
- Have a fire/bonfire so good that it attracts strangers :( (There really wasn't anywhere where a bonfire would have been a sensible idea.. AT ALL)
- Have a jam session with strangers around that bonfire :(
- Have a jam session in a spiritual/natural place [x]
- High five a stranger [x]
- Order a coffee anywhere in the US with a stereotypical Canadian accent... eh. :(
- Give a stranger/hitchhiker a ride [x]
- Get drunk in the US [x]
- Get a girls phone number [x] (technically speaking)
- Make at least one person believe we live in igloos :(
- Walk around LA in Canucks attire [x]
- Learn to play the ukelele [x] (I guess that's kind of a matter of opinion)
- Tip a cow :(
- Ask where the nearest Tim Hortons is :(
- Go through a drive-thru and rap the order  :(
- Go skinny dipping [x]
- Hug a stranger [x]
- Sneak onto a campsite [x]
- Get woken up in the middle of the night by cops [x]
- Tell somebody I am half black [x]
- Give at least 150 people the peace sign [x] (We didn't actually count, but I'm sure it's well above 150)

Border...line Intense

Day 34: Sunday May 12th, 2013... was an interesting day to say the least. It went a little bit something like this; James and I were rudely woken up by a truck full of cows being transported. I guess somebody thought it was funny to park his huge truck full of noisy cows RIGHT next to a camper van with people obviously sleeping inside. I suppose its good though, because it was like an alarm clock we couldn't turn off or hit the snooze button on, so we were forced to get up. At this point we were still in the US and were bound to hit the US/Canada border later that day. There was still some stuff we had to get rid of before we hit the border so we did and headed straight North. Before even reaching the border we were scarily close to having a head on collision with another vehicle. As you can imagine, a 1973 camper van isn't exactly up there with the top vehicles when it comes to accelerating rapidly or braking strongly. Seeing as we were stuck behind a vehicle that was slower than us (which was a very rare occurrence on this trip) we figured we would pass it - and by doing so we had to go into the oncoming traffic lane. James swung out and The Headbanger didn't exactly accelerate at the rate we had hoped for. James pushed the petal to the metal (literally as hard as he could) and we juuust managed to get back into our lane on time. If we weren't fully awake before that happening, we were now.
Soon after this we reached the border and of course, we were told to pull over so that they could check through the van and look for anything that we were potentially bringing into Canada which we weren't supposed to. In all honesty though, I think they were simply just jealous again and wanted to look inside The Headbanger. Before searching the van (not very thoroughly I imagine, potentially due to the stench in there that had accumulated over 5 weeks), they asked us whether we had any tobacco, fruits, or vegetables. Before I could say anything, James, cool as ever, simply said, "Nope". But this was not 100% true. In fact we still had an orange in the fridge, a bag or carrots next to the driver seat, an a cigar chilling on the cabinet. Now, either they did not care, they didn't see the items, they couldn't stand being inside The Headbanger due to the smell, or all of the above, but they soon returned and said, "Nice van man, what year is it?" (A phrase we must have heard a million times on this trip). We were now back in Canada again. Home sweet home.
Within about half an hour of being in Canada we saw a deer on the side of the road. I would like to make it clear that it was on the OPPOSITE side of the road, next to the oncoming traffic lane. James slowed the van down slightly so that we could take a closer, longer look at the beast. But one can only slow down so much on a highway. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere the deer decides it would be safer on the other side of the road, and thus hopped across the road. Not expecting this to happen, James once again, pushed the petal to the metal (this time the brake, not the accelerator), and had to swerve onto the oncoming traffic lane (which luckily had no traffic on it within our near surroundings). Sitting in the passenger seat, I could clearly see that we missed killing Bambi by less than a meter. If there had been oncoming traffic in the other lane, we would either have had a head on collision (which wouldn't go down too well in a camper van), or we would have banged a head with The Headbanger (and finally not one of ours). Luck seemed to be on our side today.
Within an hour of being in Canada we saw a liquor store and figured since we couldn't buy any in the US, we'll pick some up in Canada - regardless of how this sounds, we are not alcoholics. And no, before you start thinking ludicrous thoughts, we did not drink and drive. We know better than that... besides we wouldn't want to spill our drinks. (:
Within two hours of being in Canada we saw a moose on the side of the road. Being experienced road-kill avoiders, we knew exactly what to do and what to expect, so we were a lot more cautious when passing it.
We spent the night in Osoyoos, which I still cannot pronounce correctly.
Aaaah it's nice to be back!

Yellowstone

So as promised, I will write a short summary of our experiences at Yellowstone National Park. We had arrived slightly late on the first day and did not get the opportunity to see everything that we had wanted to on the first day we arrived there, so we decided to find a nice spot in a school parking lot to spend the night before returning the next morning. Despite the uniqueness of Yellowstone, as far as the geysers and hot springs and all of that goes, I was, in all honesty, slightly disappointed with Yellowstone. It was a beautiful place, don't get me wrong, I think it was just a little too busy with tourists (such as ourselves). It sort of seemed that all the cool spots that were "a must see" were packed with people taking photos. This is obviously not the fault of the park itself, but with places like Bryce and The Grand Canyon it was more spread out and we could kind of find our own spots to see nice scenery. I also noticed that all of the wildlife, despite the warnings telling people to stay well back from it, was very tame. We saw a buffalo grazing on some greenery with people standing about 5 meters away from it - the buffalo didn't seem to mind though (which is probably lucky for the unaware tourists). The natural hot springs, mudpots, fumaroles and geysers are absolutely fascinating though, and I feel blessed to have been able to witness them.
At this point we were desperate to shower, and were severely disappointed to find out that the campsite there did not offer showers, however we were very pleased to find that the hotels offered showers to the public. Showers that DID NOT HAVE A TIME LIMIT!!! Soooo nice.
From Yellowstone we dipped back out of Wyoming and continued to head towards the border (which we did not reach that day). The border crossing is a story on it's own so I'll leave that for the next entry.

It's Been a While.

I really should have blogged more in the past few days because since Las Vegas, we have seen and experienced a whole lot! We are currently sitting inside a Tim Hortons (yes we are back in Canada) and I don't have a whole lot of time to write about what we've seen but I'll attempt to sum it up as best I can in a short period of time.
First stop after Las Vegas was the Grand Canyon, which we expected to be cool but not as jaw droppingly beautiful as it really was. We did a "supposed" 4-6 hour hike in about 3 and still felt pumped by the time we got back to where we had parked. There really aren't enough words I can use to describe it, so I suggest looking at the photos we took of the spot once James' lazy butt uploads them. (:
Next stop was Bryce Canyon. James and I kind of disagree on this one, but in my opinion Bryce Canyon was the most spectacular spot we stopped at from all of the places we have visited on this trip. James still thinks the Grand Canyon trumps Bryce by quite a ways, however everyone is entitled to their opinion. The reason I was most drawn to Bryce out of the places we had visited was because of the mountainous rock formations, and the colours of the surface. Not to sound like a total hippy or anything, but I felt very connected to nature in this spot. If you are reading this I highly suggest you visit it (and the Grand Canyon too) if you ever have the opportunity to. At Bryce we also met a fellow Dutchman (I knew he was from The Netherlands because I could hear him speak Dutch) so I decided to start speaking Dutch to him as well... I kind of regret doing so now. Once we started talking to the gentleman he just blabbered on and on about how great he was, how he's walked the distance of the earth's equator several times, how Americans are fat and lazy, and how he supposedly has a photographic memory which came in useful in Vegas. His wife didn't seem too amused either. As James would say, "effing Dutch people".
If you go to google images and search Bryce Canyon, you will see large red rock structures that tower up to a hundred feet. James and I both climbed some (although seeing as I have a fear of heights, I only did once). At the top of one we were joined by two Belgiums who were doing a similar trip to ours and they suggested that we go check out Zion National Park as well. Despite the awesome name of the place, we originally weren't going to check the place out, but we did, got in for free, and saw more beautiful scenery. unfortunately by the time we got there it was already starting to get dark so we did not see the spot as thoroughly as we had wanted to.
From Zion we traveled up North  through Utah (which was much nicer than we had expected) and Salt Lake City. The next stop was Yellowstone which I will write about in the next entry because I do not have enough time to write about it now.
Stay tuned. :)

Back on the Road Again

So the last time I blogged I only got to day one in Santa Barbara, but there was so much more that we did there that I can speak of. The second full day we spent there we had planned to either go kayaking or body boarding, however it was completely overcast, foggy, rainy, and the waves were nothing short of pathetic, so unfortunately we didn't do anything on day two to write home about other than eat another one of Kaye's delicious meals. Originally we had planned to head out the next day, however David talked us into staying another day, and I am sure glad he did. The third full day we were there (technically day 4), the conditions were much better. The sun was beaming down, there were signs of waves, and their kayak was strapped to the roof of The Headbanger as we headed down to the shore to go kayaking. We headed out on the water for a ways and saw some sea lions, who pretty much just minded their own business. The wave activity that far out on the water wasn't all too exciting, so we said "peace" to the sea lions and headed to a section with better wave activity. Once we got there we decided to try and surf a few, on the kayak... THIS WAS EPIC! We only really caught two solid ones and we capsized both times, making James lose his sunglasses in the process. The third and final wave we caught was when we were getting back to shore where we set out. The waves appeared to be much smaller than they apparently really were so we thought we could catch one with little difficulty - that wasn't the case. The final wave we caught made us capsize once again however this time we were in super shallow waters and I got dragged under the kayak which gave me some pretty nice scratch and cut lines all along my back. I believe James got a few as well, however he was lucky because he was seated in the back thus didn't get the worst of it. Despite the losses and injuries, the whole adventure was completely worth it, and I'd head out again in a minute if I had the chance to.
Next stop we made was LA. We drove through Beverly Hills, we saw the Hollywood sign (it really wasn't that exciting), and drove down Sunset Blvd, before making our last big stop at Venice Beach where we took a look around. There are definitely some interesting characters down there - people trying to sell you their music, a whole bunch of hippies playing guitars and drums mediocrely (?), a guy on roller-skates with an afro in armour playing the electric guitar, and a whole lot more. But the few people I mentioned really stuck out the most. All in all it was kinda cool there, we stopped for a while at the skate bowl and watched some people shred some concrete, then passed the football around with some people, one who called me "white boy".
From Los Angeles  we went down to Death Valley. Several people had suggested it to me and I really wanted to go take a look there, however we were also looking at the temperatures of the place and were debating whether we should go or not. I am glad that we did decide to go. Although it was very hot and dry there, it was also very beautiful. We made sure we had lots of water, and we strapped two jerry cans on top of the vehicle in case we got stranded or had to spend the night there. There isn't really a lot to talk about with Death Valley so I suggest looking at the pictures we have from there for they will speak louder than words.
From Death Valley we headed to Las Vegas which is where we are now. We arrived the night of Friday, May the 3rd and are now about to head of on the road again on May the 5th. We have been staying with Blu, Chelle, their two children Lily and Madison, their dog Mojo, and their two goldfish (who's names I do not know). They have all been really friendly to the two of us. Blu is James' cousin and that's how we have connections here.
Yesterday we went and drove to Las Vegas Boulevard and walked down the street and into a few casinos and saw a show. It was a shame we weren't 21, because we would have liked to both played the slot machines at least once each, just so we can say we've done it. We even tried to, but all the machines needed "credits" which means that you have to exchange your money for credits at a kiosk somewhere. Something we both noted is that it seemed like 95% of the people inside casinos did not seem to be happy to be there, however they would continue to feed the machines like robots and blow their money. But we got a nice brief view of what it was like there.
Next stop The Grand Canyon?

I would also like to spend this next paragraph to thank both Kaye and David for the awesome time, and hospitality they showed us, James and myself had an excellent time in Santa Barbara! I would also like to thank Blu, Chelle, Lily, Madison, Mojo, and the goldfish of course, for letting us crash in your home and showing us both such utter friendliness and making us feel like we were at home. We both really appreciate it!

Living's Good

So we are currently residing in Santa Barbara where we are staying with David and Kaye, who have connections with Sally, who is the mother of James. It is really nice here and they have been so friendly to us! A proper home cooked meal today was definitely a nice change from our usual slight variations of Annie's Pasta (Annie's with pepper, Annie's with mushrooms, Annie's with kale, Annie's with mushrooms and kale, etc... You get the idea), and it doesn't hurt either that Kaye is an excellent cook.
So far we've only really spent one full day in Santa Barbara and James and I did an epic hike up to a place I believe was called Seven Falls? We didn't find the path that led up to the top so we made our own path - but this was a lot more fun anyways. In order to get there we had to do a little bit of rock climbing and a very minimal amount of bushwhacking. Once we arrived at the top there was an amazing pool of water which we both skinny dipped in - one at a time of course. We may be close friends, but not that close. :P
Anyways we are planning on probably spending two more nights here in David and Kaye's home. They offered us the place for as long as we needed, but we do have other areas to explore and a loose schedule to stick to. Tomorrow we are hoping to go body boarding and maybe biking too? Santa Barbara is beautiful and we feel as if we are being treated as kings, which is a pretty nice alternative to the previous "van life" we have been experiencing for the past few weeks.
Next stop L.A? Once we've been to L.A. it will likely be the last time we see the coast until we are back in Vancouver. This means that it is likely to get a whole lot warmer throughout the day, and for two "white kids" from Vancouver, we ain't exactly all too used to such weather. I already have a horrible farmer's tan which I am not very proud of. What makes it worse is that it is only on my right arm because I've been in the passenger seat for the entire trip, thus I get all of my sun on that side. Sigh.

Oh well until next time I can update this thing. Is anybody still reading it, or am I pretty much just talking to myself?

PS. The Headbanger is still running super smoothly.

Hooray!

THE HEADBANGER IS RUNNING SMOOTHLY!!! So we went to the shop and I believe they changed the coil and something else. Whatever it was they did, it sure seemed to work, because she hasn't misfired once! This is excellent news, because this means our road-trip can continue.
In the last few days we have been to Berkeley University which is a really nice campus full of cool shops and super chill people.
Yesterday we went to Yosemite park and were happy to find that it was apparently "National park week" or something along those lines, meaning that we didn't have to pay the usual $20 fee to get in. Instead James donated $2 to the park... what a guy. Whilst in the park we did an amazing hike up to Upper Yosemite Falls and had a little music session up there with the ukelele and the djembe. We got back just in the nick of time because it got dark about 10 minutes after we had arrived back to The Headbanger. There we ate Amy's Tomato soup in the dark. If you are reading this, I highly suggest you never purchase that soup because it was pretty disgusting and I had trouble finishing mine.
Next big stop we are planning for is Santa Barbara, where James has connections and a place for us to stay. I won't lie, a proper home cooked meal and a shower are going to be pretty nice. I'm sort of starting to get tired of our oatmeal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and pasta and/or soup for dinner. As "exciting" as they are, a bit of variety would be nice.

Still Here?

Alrighty then... So we took the camper van into the shop and the people there worked on it for a little while and charged us $145.50 for the work and supplies they had offered our van. We could have lived with that if that fixed the van, making it no longer misfire... However that is not the case. The Headbanger (which is the name we gave the van because it is small and we bump our heads in it all the time (I will also be referring to the van as "The Headbanger" from now on)), is still misfiring, almost worse than it was before. Today we returned to that same auto shop and talked to the gentleman who worked on The Headbanger. He re-assured us that they had fixed all of the problems in The Headbanger which needed obvious attention. This means that the reason it is acting up could be one of many things. So in order to fix the problem and for us to be able to continue on this trip smoothly, we need to keep fixing things which are "potentially" causing the problem. Unfortunately this could be relatively expensive. Meaning that our trip will inevitably be cut shorter regardless of whether we fix the problem or not. If we do not, we have to head right home (which I have no idea how we are going to go about doing so), but if we do fix her up, that means the costs of fixing it come right out of our road trip budget. 
We are still currently a little North of San Fransisco and it feels as if we have been here forever. We are both eager to keep going, but it is hard to do when The Headbanger is acting up. We have to wait until tomorrow morning to bring it into the shop again where they are replacing a few more items in the engine. If I remember correctly, they are replacing the cylinder and something else, however I am not an individual who knows a whole lot about cars and I could be very wrong.
So now we are sitting in Barnes and Noble which has a Starbucks - which basically means free internet. I don't really have all too many exciting stories to tell of from the past few days because we've been pretty much sitting in the same area cruising around, eating food, reading books, sleeping, and eating more food.

San Fransisco and Surrounding Areas

It's been kind of hard to keep this thing updated since we don't exactly have internet access whenever we need it. But the past few days have been really nice. We went down to San Fransisco twice (once on the 18th the other time on the 20th). Unfortunately we haven't been able to keep heading south and have kind of been sitting around the area of North San Fransisco for the past few days, this is because the Van hasn't been running all too smoothly and keeps misfiring. (*Insert, " told you that would happen" comment here*). So the van is in the shop right now and we have yet to go back and see how much money we need to spend on it. Hopefully this won't cut our trip short - in which case, if it would, see you soon Vancouver.
San Fransisco was pretty nice. However as a tourist in a new city, the transit system is always a little bit confusing. Also it has some interesting characters, such as naked men riding bikes, an older woman telling her little girl to "shut the fuck up", and a crackhead who throws footballs at people's faces (as James experienced first hand). Seeing as we were there for the second time on 4/20, there were a ton on potheads roaming around. This made the city just that much more interesting.
I don't really have all that much to say about it other than that it was nice, REALLY HOT (the weather here in spring is easily like summer in Vancouver), it would have been cooler if we knew our way around properly, and also a whole lot cooler if we were 21. Don't take the cable cars... We never did seeing as how they were $6, even if we only wanted to ride them for like 10 feet.
Also we didn't expect to see palm trees quite yet, but we did. It's sure starting to feel a whole lot more like Cali.

PS. We went to a place called Yolo because we saw it on the map and couldn't NOT go after seeing it... after all, YOLO. (You Only Live Once, for those of you who aren't quite up to date on the lingo).

Peace for now.

Still Alive

So it's been a while since I've posted anything new on here but we've kept ourselves busy. We are almost in San Fran and should probably be there by tomorrow. We've driven through the Redwoods, along the coast, and seen many beautiful viewpoints.
We also got kicked off of a campground because we tried using their showers without asking (it had been a while and we were getting desperate for one). I was almost already undressed when I was rudely interrupted by the caretaker. It was awkward enough not being fully naked yet, I don't even want to imagine what it would have been like if I was. We did however get a free shower at the next site after asking the people there kindly if we could. So lesson learned I guess? Always ask first haha.
Also I still have no idea how to upload photos to here yet so I'll just attach a link to James' photo album on facebook. I think you'll be able to see them if we're friends on facebook, otherwise I guess add me?
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200460512089820.1073741826.1067388543&type=1

Quick Update.

So James and I are once again stealing some internet from Starbucks, but this time we are in Tillamook, Oregon. Our expenses for how long we've been gone for, are so far relatively descent. Showers at the campsite yesterday were bloody amazing! (and free too). I think in order to save money in the future we'll just head into a campsite, use their showers and find a spot to spend the night for free in the trustworthy van... as opposed to spending around $20.00 to spend the night there. Oh well, this is a learning experience. The highlight of yesterday (April 11th) was definitely the jam session James and I had on the sand dunes by the beach under the stars, we had a djembe, a ukelele, and our amazing voices. :)
We've had several comments about our VW van, mostly from middle aged men who reminisce about how they used to drive their VW, "back in their day". We are also still rocking our Canada toques (a term most Americans are not familiar with) with pride!

PS. Some pictures are coming soon, we just have to figure out how to upload them to James' computer, unfortunately neither of us are exactly tech literate.

So Far So Good.

So we are currently in a Starbucks in Aberdeen, Washington with James Apple laptop feeling really hip. We have taken the Interstate 5 South highway so far and plan on heading out to the coast later today if we can make it then (it is currently 5:25 PM) or if not sleep somewhere and head out first thing tomorrow. The border crossing went really surprisingly smooth. I was pretty darn positive that our 1973 "hippy van" would have been searched, but the grumpy guy at the border just asked us where we were going, what we were doing, how long we'd be doing it, and he stuck his head inside the van to take a quick look (I think he was just jealous of how cool it is). But we successfully made it through without any hassle and are still currently heading South, next destination - somewhere in Oregon.
Also the first night we slept in our van, in a rest stop, and honestly there isn't much to comment about that, because we were both asleep. We saw a spot on the map called, Warm Beach, however that title couldn't have been any more misleading, the beach was minimal, pretty much all privatized, and it was far from warm. Oh well hopefully the warm sandy beaches in Cali will serve us better.

Until next time.

Moment of Truth

So the time has finally come to leave! We've got all of our gear packed up and ready to go, the iPod is filled with groovy tunes, the Ukelele is tuned, the gas tank is (hopefully) full, and our spirits are high. Bring it on USA!

Also I really hope they let us cross the border. Something tells me they are at least going to search a 1973 VW camper van driven by two 19 year old men, filled with bags and supplies. I'm almost tempted to wear a tie-dye shirt with the slogan "legalize" written across it accompanied by a marijuana leaf (if I had one of those to begin with). I somehow think it honestly wouldn't make a difference. Oh well, we'll keep our fingers crossed and see how it goes when we get there.

Bucket List

This is a little bucket list type of... list (?) which I created a while ago of, with stuff that I think needed to be done whilst on our road trip. It needs work, I know. But if anybody has any suggestions of things I should add, my ears (eyes) are wide open.

- Get chased off of somebody's property
- See the Golden Gate Bridge
- Make it back home
- Have a fire/bonfire so good that it attracts strangers
- Have a jam session with strangers around that bonfire
- High five a stranger
- Order a coffee anywhere in the US with a stereotypical Canadian accent... eh.
- Give a stranger/hitchhiker a ride 
- Get drunk in the US
- Get a girls phone number
- Make at least one person believe we live in igloos
- Walk around LA in Canucks attire
- Learn to play the ukelele 
- Tip a cow
- Ask where the nearest Tim Hortons is
- Go through a drive-thru and rap the order (thanks Misha for the suggestion)

Oh Hi There.

I figured since two close homies (James and myself) are traveling down South starting from Vancouver BC, Canada, I'd make a blog and keep track of where we've gone and what we've done. This way if anybody asks either of us about the trip, as opposed to be social about it and telling them, we can just re-direct those nosy individuals here. :)
It's also a great way to later look back and see what kind of crazy adventures we've had.
It is currently 12:44 PM on April 06, 2013. and we plan on leaving at around 7:00 PM on April 09, 2013. Our original date to leave was March 20, but as you can see, that never fell through. So March 09 it is, as long as I can find my passport by then, James gets our VW mini van pimped out and we've got all of our supplies. 


PS. This is the first blog I've ever done and have no idea what I'm doing.. so bear with me.