Planes, trains and automobiles eh
Wandered up to Nanaimo, BC this week. They don’t make it to easy to get there sometimes. Stephen and I ended up hopping the max train to the airport, plane to vancouver, cab to the ferry, ferry to south nanaimo, cab to dowtown Nanaimo. Geez. Both cabs were little Prius’, nice.
Met with a lot of fisheries folks there in Nanaimo, Alaska fish and game, Canada dept. of fisheries and oceans, Oregon dept. of fish and wildlife, state of the salmon, ecotrust, lots of smart people. Was I intimidated? Yeah a little, but I spoke my mind and learned a lot. We’re all collaborating as part of the Agency Partnership Initiative, funded by the Moore foundation.
Good beer was hard to come by up there. The longwood brewpub had a couple good selections. Their dunkelwiezenbrau, a dark wheat beer was pretty tasty. Their stout lacked a nice foamy head when poured and was pretty warm for my taste but was pretty good. Everything else I found was just so different from the same style beers in the Northwest. The ESB’s and IPA’s where lacking severly in hoppiness. Maybe the bitter part of my tongue is overloaded from all the fresh hop brews belmont station has been serving up.
The ride back was great, took my first seaplane trip across the channel back to Vancouver. Little bumpy but too much fun and the landing is so smooth. I think I felt safer in a little plan than a big jetliner. Lower height and less moving parts maybe.
Saw Obama clinch the presidency just before boarding the plane back to the states. I’m not sure I would have got on if McCain won…