British Columbia is big. Just the one province of Canada is four time the size of UK, or bigger than France and Germany combined. It’s full of amazing scenery and we’ve done many, many miles exploring the never-ending network of dirt-trails leading to spectacular view-points and remote camp-spots. In the Kootenays we’ve had a phenomenal heat-wave, thunderous lightning storms and freaky forest fires popping up at random spots all over the province. Oh… and posh mushrooms, we had a load of those too!     

A pandemic isn’t a great time to be overlanding, but if that’s where you find yourself, you could do worse than be overlanding a place like Canada. We spent a chunk of the autumn around Vancouver Island where it was (relatively) easy to stay safe from the dratted ‘rona virus…