provincial slogan: wet out, eh?

You can get around the Vancouver / Victoria, British Columbia area mass transit except for the stretch on Vancouver Island between NANAIMO ferry terminal & Victoria.

I had a $3,000.00 thought one day in the mensroom of SPINNAKER's brewpub in Victoria (one of only 2 breweries in North America making *REAL* cask-conditioned w/ WOODEN casks).
Note to big - time brewery in Seattle, Washington - possession of an antique beer engine does not make it cask -conditioned if you use steel kegs...

I advise starting all nationwide trips at the Port Coquitlam on - ramp on the trans - canada hiway (you hafta take the bus into town from where you likely snuk in near Blaine but it gets the immigration cops off your tail...
There is a bus stop near Hwy 99 near the U.S. border. Go to White Rock, change, then get downtown Van and the change to Coquitlam.
You should make it to 'CHILLIWACK' or 'HOPE' on a good day...
At 'Hope' take the toll - road north, it connects up w/the trans - can up in Kamloops and is faster than old Rt 1.
You shouldn't have too hard of a time getting to Banff, Alberta.

A FEW rednecks in 'Sicamous'(SICK A MOO).

Hwy 16 (Yelllowhead from Prince Rupert to Alb) friendly - cheap beer at most bars in P. Rupert - to avoid being tagged as American: if somebody buys you a beer at a bar just order a 'Canadian', it's not undrinkable and keeps people from wonderin'.

oh yeah, in USA they're called 'pitchers' and we occassionally share them w/friends, in Canada they're called 'jugs' and they don't share 'em...
So don't even ask...

The only really redneck town besides Fort St. John (where I was offered a guys wife to screw as an apology...) is Quesnel (KWE-NEL),
but you *likely* (= usa 'probably') won't go there...unless you turn at Cache Creek to go to AK (thru Prince George).

Oddly enough most pop machines still ask for less than a dollar in canada.
BC bus fares are between $1.25 and $3.00 depending on distance...
Avg crossing times: all points on Vancouver Island (1-4 hrs)
Van to Banff: day and a half
Van to Prince George: 1 day
van to Fort St.John: 1-2 days
Prince Rupert to Edmonton, Alberta: 2-3 days (big distance).

Coolness: C100-50 for events such as 'the ball & chain incident' and the 'turban incident' in Quesnel.

PS: I am soliciting info for ALL canadian chapters...

Good donut chain: Tim Horton's.

VANCOUVER ISLAND: Nanaimo - Victoria: Aids patient who had to stop halfway to administer a "Morticians Cocktail" of liquid morphine / cocaine / alcohol - an actual PRESCRIPTION! (painkiller in Canada).
He was fun for the second half of the ride...

Hwy 16 near Jasper, B.C. 18 wheeler driver with a sixpack of "Kootenay' and two joints in hand while we were driving, a BOAT slipped it's trailer in front of an R.C.M.P cruiser and NOBODY IN THE CAR NOTICED!
Hell, he was stoned and HE saw it...

Road from Quesnel to Williams - gawgeous stripper in red Camaro convertible that I couldn't tell was a chick 'til I got up to car...from the back with her long hair and cowboy hat she looked just like Stevie Ray Vaughn (r.i.p).
Incidentally, she's the ONLY stripper I have EVER met that didn't consider doing speed an ocupational requirement...
Also, one of the few strippers I've ever met that weren't plug - ugly either...

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