Beautiful British Columbia - Images of me, my life and my province (311 hits)
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Submitted by Tokerson (View user info) at 2008-10-27 10:09:31 EDT
I truly love where I live. Most young people, both in general and where I am, find a small city boring and something to escape from, especially with Cosmopolitan and exciting Vancouver just a few hours away, but not me. While I do love Vancouver (consistently ranked in the top 3 of the overall best, and consistently the 1st most beautiful, cities of the world) and could happily live there, I feel no desire to leave my hometown I've lived in for my entire life. Having left BC for the first time this Summer, other than having flown to distant locations, I can truly appreciate my Ontarian Father's declaration of how gloriously fortunate I have it to live here, and found nowhere else on a three month road trip, that even approaches the beauty and comfort I take for granted... though there are many fine places I saw. A Belgian girl I worked with whose family travels the world, whose been to every continent and near every biome, said coastal BC is hands down the most stunning and beautiful place she's ever been; better than the South Pacific, anywhere in Europe (though Switzerland and Italy are amazing, North America (New England is nice and 2nd best here), Australia, Japan or any Southeast Asian country. I don't say this to suggest I'm luckier, better or happier than you and in fact suspect everyone loves their own personal home and lives more than any other potential ones, but simply to accurately preface why it is I think you'll enjoy (most) of what I have to show.
You may think I'm biased because I'm a nature lover, which I am, but I'd like to point out I'm only so because one from here must be a nature lover, just as Italians must be pasta and otherwise-mouth watering food lovers. When you are surrounded by the best of something, it makes you a lover and fan of it by its own quality, and isn't a passion you hold simply because you're predisposed to it.
I was unaware that wherever there wasn't society, there wasn't necessarily huge, densely packed trees, that most trees elsewhere I could wrap one arm around, that lush and omnipresent ferns, mosses, fungi, deer and owls and are considered "exotic" (which I actually laughed out loud at when told so while visiting Yellowstone), how nice to never be more than fifteen minutes from the open ocean, how accommodating and consistently enjoyable all our seasons are, just how bountiful and premium our pot is and how reasonable and courteous the police are (once got caught hotboxing my car with too many passengers and a learner's license, only to be told things would "go well" if I just handed over the pot, which I did, before being told I could keep my pipe, which was "nice", to just drive straight home. My car or myself weren't searched, when I put my hands in my pockets he didn't care and when I crinkled a jolly rancher wrapper in my pocket he asked if it was just some munchies, which he didn't bother to confirm, and after giving him one, I simply drove off... when in California smoking ONE joint with some people, and not in possession of anything myself, found myself suddenly surrounded by several cop cars, being screamed at to "Get on the fucking ground!", while guns were aimed at me and several officers lunged on top of me, as I was the only one who didn't immediately jump a fence and was 'naïve' enough to actually start to lay down.).
The Following are pictures of the common things in my life, of just myself, my town, a specific public park two minutes from my house, a walk I went on through the woods five minutes from my house and of just random tidbits and curios that'll compensate for the other content I'm sure you have no interest in.
Again, this isn't about why I'm better than anyone, which I'm not, and with photos to prove it. Everywhere has a unique defining trait that's marked as the best example of that quality in the world, and I believe that an objective observation would reach the same conclusion of my personal experience in acknowledging that British Columbia is the most naturally beautiful and geographically comfortable place in the world.
This is simply about me hoping you can appreciate why I've come to love what I love, yourself coming to enjoy what it is that I love, and maybe reflect on what is in your life that makes your home special and that you wouldn't change for the world.
Enjoy!
(I've got a tonne of other photos from my road trips and other generalisms that I'll post later without extensive and presumptuous text)
User Reviews
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2008-10-27 10:52:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Also, points for the Boba Fett Space Rum. Bwahahahahahaha!!!! WIN!!!!!
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2008-10-27 10:49:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
POINTS for awesome pictures, especially of the weeds. I've smoked some BC buds--awesome. Also my ex used to get his friends from Port Angeles, WA who used to clone buds to send us that stuff...amazing. Man...I need to make a trip up to Canada sometime...
Submitted by Tokerson (user info) at 2008-10-27 10:25:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Ever work on something for a few hours, only to have it not work as you'd like and unable to fix? Ever realized that the material cost of actually destroying the thing that can't feel how much you hate it is always equal to the immaterial satisfaction of outletting your immediate, seething rage that churns inside you? Computers are fucking expensive...
Just -2 this, I'll never care less about failing spectacularly at something I put some actual time into. tinypic and photobucket wont even display the fucking thing fullsize, or even close thereto.
Submitted by stucker (user info) at 2008-10-27 10:22:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was fun.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2008-10-27 10:19:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I've debated moving there....prolly would if I weren't married