Summer vacation, or, blog silence explained

Oh, sweet July sunshine. So nice to feel warmth coming from the sky. I can hardly tell you how much I missed it. I'm looking forward to going swimming every day this week. Here's why. (Click now! It might not look so nice after the 4:00 forecast - you never know!)

After it dawned on me last Friday that I'd fully missed my Thursday blog deadline, I decided that it was time to put Howe Soundings away for the summer. Don't say I didn't warn you about this, because I did. In just a week and a half (!) we set off for the Rockies, and in exactly two weeks we start riding home on our bikes, following the Trans Canada Trail for most of the way. I'm getting excited about the trip, and I'm also a little panicky about all of the prep that has to be done before we leave town. There might not actually be very much prep, of course, but I haven't had much time to think about it, what with work and writing and writing and work. So I'm letting Howe Soundings go for a while to free up some brain space.

If you want to follow along as we ride the logging roads and railway beds of southern BC, you can read our trip blog, Across BC by TCT! There's nothing up there yet, but we'll try to post every now and then along the way.

And if you feel like it, come on back here in September, because I'll definitely continue to blog about life in and around Gibsons. I'll probably scale the output back to one post a week - I'm starting a Ph.D., after all, and I don't think I'll have too much spare time.

Last words - we'll have a wonderful summer pedalling the back roads, but I'll sure miss summertime on the Sunshine Coast. In my opinion, nothing in the world comes close to smokies over the campfire and early evening swims at, well, basically any beach (but I'm partial to Whitaker Beach). I recommend that to everyone.