Journeys
Every trip on the blog, in order. Pull one off the shelf and read it day by day, the way the family followed along.
- Prologue · 1990
The Zodiac Where it started: the Zodiac
“This is our family 20 years ago on the Zodiac. He actually took this boat around Vancouver Island once. We spent many, many hours fishing, whale watching, and throwing up in this boat!”
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Chapter 1 · 2007
Sea-Doo to Alaska
In June 2007 Jack left Horseshoe Bay on a Sea-Doo loaded with camping gear and a satellite phone, and pointed it north. Three weeks, a thousand miles of coast, rain, hot tubs, bears, the Coast Guard, and a lot of chocolate later he was home. His daughter Louise kept the family posted.
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Chapter 2 · 2007
Africa
A different sort of adventure: that autumn Jack and Jackie went to South Africa and Kenya. Shark diving in Cape Town, a safari, Mombasa on the Indian Ocean, and the dental clinic in Mukeu where the family had come to help.
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Chapter 3 · 2008
Out on the Jet Ski
One beautiful Saturday, one jet ski, and no wind at the house. Jack writes this one himself.
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Chapter 4 · 2010
Around Haida Gwaii
In the summer of 2010 Jack set out again on the jet ski, this time up the coast and across Hecate Strait to Haida Gwaii, the Queen Charlotte Islands. He carried a SPOT tracker, so for the first time the family could click a link each evening and see exactly where he was.
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Chapter 5 · 2014
Around Canada in a Cessna
At 60, freshly retired, Jack bought a Cessna 172 he called the Retro Rocket and decided to fly around the whole country: up the west coast to Haida Gwaii, through the Yukon to the Arctic Ocean, across the Northwest Passage to Resolute and Pond Inlet, down through Iqaluit and Labrador to Newfoundland, then all the way back west. Louise and Joanne kept the blog while he was out of range.
Jack's passport
One stamp for every chapter, from a very small boat in 1990 to the long way round Canada in 2014.