an update from Gelbin

Wow, what an exciting few weeks it's been!

One day while I was wandering around the countryside I met a lovely group of cyclists who
were heading from Vancouver Island all the way out to Newfoundland. I got talking with them and they asked me to join along with them for the ride! Of course I accepted, and hopped into one of their backpacks and headed out east with them. These folk would bike about 100km a day and then set up camp for the night in whatever campgrounds they could find nearby. I'd never slept in a tent before, but i found that it's not so different from sleeping in a garden and I quite like the idea of not being wet when it's raining. We travelled all the way through the interior of BC over the course of several days. Oh, the mountains are so beautiful there! Great green streams and rivers flow between the crags and the air is so fresh and clean. Every night I slept for what felt like 100 hours and awoke ready and refreshed for the next day of travelling. We then headed into

Alberta where I started to get a little scared.When we arrived in Jasper to my great surprise it was snowing, and it was snowing hard! We had to camp that night with three inches of snow on the ground and it was quite a bit below freezing. Now, I've never mentioned this before, but I am not a winter person! When the snow covers the garden at home it's all I can do to brush it off and go sleep inside, but I know that I must stand guard, or who else will? For the next several days on my way through Banff it continued to be cold and it rained instead of snowed. After arriving in Banff I'd decided that if I were going to be cold, I might as well be going north instead of East. I discussed things with the cyclists and they agreed to mail me back to the Vancouver area so that I could start my own journey north (now that I know for sure where I want to go!). I arrived today and I plan on leaving for Yukon in a few days once I figure out just how to get there.

I've not yet found what I'm looking for; I hope that I find it soon.