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Trish Friesen from Tripstyler and I are now appearing semi-regularly on Global’s new 24 hour news station, BC1! Every couple of weeks we join Jill Krop on her AM/BC program to discuss travel tips. Trish focuses on an international destination and I’m all about places to visit in BC, in the spirit of my Super, Neighbours feature here on our blog.

In our most recent segment, Trish presented London, England as a destination and I countered with Harrison Hot Springs, BC. Check out the segment below and have a great long weekend, whether you spend it in Vancouver or get out of town.

Welcome to the latest series of Super, Neighbours blog posts where we highlight incredible travel destinations in British Columbia!Feast Tofino is back for it’s third year and it’s better and longer than ever. Stretching throughout May, it features “Stay and Dine” packages as well as $29, $39 and $49 “Dine About” set price menus, special events, and celebrates “the abundance of seasonal produce, seafood and sustainable “boat-to-table” practices commonly adopted by the area’s restaurants” and the Tofino-Ucluelet Culinary Guild. In this 5 part series I’m going to show you everything from the ease of travelling to Tofino, to the amazing food you can eat, activities you can try, places you can stay and people you can meet.Here is Part One: Getting There!

I haven’t been to Tofino in almost 10 years I’d say…and after this trip, I don’t know what I was thinking waiting so long. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, our fearless leader, Bob Kronbauer, has frequented this oceanside paradise more than a few times in the last few years, and I’m glad he let me have the chance to cover Feast Tofino this go around!

I had never been to the South Terminal at YVR before, nor had I even flown in a plane to Tofino, so this was all new to me! The kind people at Destination British Columbia set me up with a flight on Orca Airways, and I navigated my way to the terminal with ease: Canada Line to the airport, down the elevator and sauntered over to the shuttle pick up for the South Terminal.

Once there, I checked in, in a matter of 2 minutes (seriously), and decided to have a beer and lunch on the patio (no lies) of the cafe attached to the airport.
Yes, I’m not making this up…it’s the heaven of airports.

I’ve been in a floatplane once before, and flew around Howe Sound last year, but never travelled in one of this awesome little planes that …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Trish Friesen from Tripstyler and I are now appearing semi-regularly on Global’s new 24 hour news station, BC1! Every couple of weeks we join Jill Krop on her AM/BC program to discuss travel tips. Trish will focus on an international destination and I’ll be all about places to visit in BC, in the spirit of my Super, Neighbours feature here on our blog.

Today I attempted to weigh quaint and rural Galiano Island against the glitz of Dubai! Watch the segment below.

Trish Friesen from Tripstyler and I are now appearing semi-regularly on Global’s new 24 hour news station, BC1! Every couple of weeks we’ll be joining Jill Krop on her AM/BC program to discuss travel tips. Trish will focus on an international destination and I’ll be all about places to visit in BC, in the spirit of my Super, Neighbours feature here on our blog.

Below is our first segment (PERMALINK TO VIDEO) that we did earlier today. Thanks again to Jill and the team at BC1 for having us!
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Last summer, after returning from a trip to Painter’s Lodge in Campbell River, I wrote THIS FEATURE about how I used travel writing as one of the key components in helping to cure the stress-induced eye disease that I was diagnosed with. Through our Super, Neighbours series (with its improper punctuation inspired, of course, by the Province of BC’s long-running Super, Natural tagline when promoting our province), I’ve been able to unplug as often as I can while still keeping my foot on the gas and heading up Vancouver Is Awesome. The multi-part features that result are reminders of how close in proximity we are to other incredible BC destinations.

A couple of these travel writing adventures have taken me to Oak Bay Marine Group’s properties, and they recently invited me to write about them for their magazine, Coastal Currents, which has been going out to about 80,000 people three times per year for the past 30-or-so years. Below is the excerpt of the piece that I wrote and supplied photos for. You can check out the entire magazine as a PDF HERE.

For the fourth year the Comox Valley is holding its Dine Around festival – a celebration of food from Vancouver Island!

From February 20 through March 17, 2013,  many Comox Valley restaurants will partake in the campaign by creating delicious three-course, prix fixe meals – each available to diners for $17, $27 or $37 – you can see a full list of the participating restaurants by clicking here.

Last week I was asked to come out to the CV for a visit and to have a taste of some of what one could eat during the festival, and boy did they deliver… read about my adventure below!

First off, I have to tell you about my trip over there, from the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, it’s an hour and 40min boat ride over to Nanaimo and then a quick one hour and a half drive up the coast. Seeing as I don’t have a car, we enlisted the help of the awesome people at BC Ford, who lent me a 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid, and as you see below, I got to road trip in style.

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