That trip to the mainland is just as exhausting and unreliable. The saving grace for me is that we're on the big island, so all of our amenities are close by. It is family on the mainland I miss so much. It is a two-hour drive to catch the ferry in Nanaimo, two hours on the ferry, then the drive to wherever we're going on the mainland. Add to that another four hours to get back (plus waiting times in the ferry parking lot) and the trip drains the life out of us. Bridges! Bridges are good. If they can build one to PEI, then why not to the mainland?
Hi Marlet. Thanks for your comment. Yes, I know that the trip from the Comox Valley to the mainland is long and hard. I'm also getting to be such a country mouse I find the traffic in Vancouver terrifying. A friend drove me to the seaplane terminal the last time I was in a few months ago to do a reading. Three individuals elected to run red lights in that short drive. I was quivering.
Yes, you do have services close but family, that's hard. Bet your family aren't enamoured of the ferry trip either! I know my daughter mm, let me put it this way, is not fond of those long ferry rides and waits, and expresses herself with vigour.
Beautiful! I want to visit now. I lived on Ishigaki and Okinawa island for four years. Absolutely beautiful places and I miss living on islands. Now I live on “the 9th island” in the middle of the Mojave desert. But I so miss being near the water.
Hi Autumn. Thanks for your comment. That's wonderful to know the post made you want to visit! I'm sure there's a wonderful story connected with you living on Ishigaki and Okinawa! What a change to living in the middle of the Mojave desert. I've always enjoyed the deserts I've passed through, but it was just that, a short trip and then home to the land of the water.
That trip to the mainland is just as exhausting and unreliable. The saving grace for me is that we're on the big island, so all of our amenities are close by. It is family on the mainland I miss so much. It is a two-hour drive to catch the ferry in Nanaimo, two hours on the ferry, then the drive to wherever we're going on the mainland. Add to that another four hours to get back (plus waiting times in the ferry parking lot) and the trip drains the life out of us. Bridges! Bridges are good. If they can build one to PEI, then why not to the mainland?
Hi Marlet. Thanks for your comment. Yes, I know that the trip from the Comox Valley to the mainland is long and hard. I'm also getting to be such a country mouse I find the traffic in Vancouver terrifying. A friend drove me to the seaplane terminal the last time I was in a few months ago to do a reading. Three individuals elected to run red lights in that short drive. I was quivering.
Yes, you do have services close but family, that's hard. Bet your family aren't enamoured of the ferry trip either! I know my daughter mm, let me put it this way, is not fond of those long ferry rides and waits, and expresses herself with vigour.
Beautiful! I want to visit now. I lived on Ishigaki and Okinawa island for four years. Absolutely beautiful places and I miss living on islands. Now I live on “the 9th island” in the middle of the Mojave desert. But I so miss being near the water.
Hi Autumn. Thanks for your comment. That's wonderful to know the post made you want to visit! I'm sure there's a wonderful story connected with you living on Ishigaki and Okinawa! What a change to living in the middle of the Mojave desert. I've always enjoyed the deserts I've passed through, but it was just that, a short trip and then home to the land of the water.