Non stop to Nanaimo

This morning we caught the number 50 to the central bus station. Once safely onboard the Greyhound it then cruised right by our motel and the bus stop where we were stood not 20 mins ago. Not sure if it would have stopped to pick us up, and we daren't asked knowing that we didn't really want to know the answer, just it case, as it may have saved us the very overcrowded twenty minutes stood on the 50! Either way though on the 50 Fe did meet a lovely but slightly dotty Asian lady that was dead keen to know all her  fellow passenger's life story and age which made for some very odd fun.

The greyhound transported us north to Nanaimo, a 2 hour journey up the east coast of the island. With a chirpy driver, if a little short for such a large bus. The 2 hours seemed to pass pretty quickly with the journey taking us past remote farmland, rivers running to huge, huge lakes and homes with massive log piles and ute's outside, some as big as the house.

We drove though a town called Ladysmith.  Roberts Street is the exact location of the 49th Parallel – the northern latitudinal boundary that marks the US/Canada border from the BC mainland to Manitoba way over on the East side of Canada near the Hudson Bay. These imaginary Circle of latitudes run East to West. These circles connect all locations on our planet.