So I mentioned before about my trip to Newfoundland, and my completion of the Trans-Canada hwy. These pictures date back to when I was 19. This is where it all began. Summer 2004. Backpacking around Beautiful British Columbia. Living the dream. Picking apples. Hitch hiking and camping. I met a German Guy named Christoph. I have to credit these pictures to him. We got a job working together on an orchard but had 5 days to kill before harvest. Most of these pictures show those 5 days of hitch hiking around BC. From Summerland B.C to Jasper, down to Banff, and back to the Okanagan Valley. Then the work began. Our first night was spent in the an apple orchard beside the highway. Surprisingly not the strangest place we slept during the trip.

So we made it through jasper and back down to banff.

This is a picture from the highway just outside of Banff. We woke up early in the rain and stood on the highway ALL day. 6 hours of standing on the side of the road in the rain.

If it wasn't so damn beautiful I would have been pissed. But we get a ride after all. He says he can take us to Lake Louise, about 45 min down the highway. Its about 6:45 by the time we get in the car. Buddy tells us 20 mins into the drive that he's not going to go all the way there cause he didn't realize how far it was, and that he was just being nice. Buddy was being really weird. We said fuck it. Stop the car here. We got out.

So. Now we are about 22km outside of Banff in the middle of a National park. This is the Woods. Bears. Elk. Wolves. No lie. Its getting dark. Starting to rain again. So instead of setting up our tent and risk being eaten or trampled. We climb up under a highway overpass and hunker down for a long fitful night of sleep.

So we ended up having to hitch a ride back into town in the morning. We only had one day to get back to Summerland, BC. Thats roughly a 5 hour drive, which equals an 11 hour bus ride! Oh man. I hate busses. But we made it into town and made it back to the farm in time to start our apple picking jobs.