Such a perfect day in Victoria. With this heat and blue skies it feels like holidays in foreign lands but the cost is so much better.
Victoria almost feels like the interior with this heat the wraps around you the second you step outside.
I walked to the radio station today. Through a park, on a trail along the Gorge, across the trestle bridge and along the Selkirk Waterway before finally having to cut inland and onward to the Quadra Village.
With the water and the boats and parks I could be forgiven to think that I was not on my commute to work, but rather a trek on an expensive vacation.
Oddly, one of the smells on my trip that launched my memories reeling to holidays past was the smell of engine exhaust. For me, some of my great times were had at Christina Lake at my friend Bob’s cabin. A cabin that you could only get to by boat and where each day on the water had temperatures that screamed up to the 30s. With so many boats around, the smell of engines hung in the air. And though engine fumes and filth is not a pretty thing, that smell does trigger in my mind the feelings of vacation.
I’ll take it.
two more weeks till Coral, Maddy Oh Yeah and I head off on our summer adventures.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 