Soul tour 3rd update

Vancouver, BC

The truck decided to lay down on us for the 4^th time in a week on a highway toward Vancouver B.C.   It was the same problem we had expereinced previously,  the truck instantly lost power and died before we could change lanes on a busy intersate.  Stranded on the median of the main artery to Seattle during rush hour Ed and I discussed our options.   Out of money and patients, Ed called a friend Atom Crawford in nearby Oylmpia for assistance.  Atom gracously towed our rig to his house and offered his garage for as long as we needed it.  He also volunteered to get us drunk and take our minds off the lame piece of  transportation.  From Atoms house we had a fast downhill longboard ride to the bars where we drank whisky-beer backs until we no longer remembered why, what or who.  Ed and I where on our way to surf world famous Skookumchuck, a tidal boar off the coast of British Columbia.   Our plan was to surf the epic wave with a group of  friends at the greatest tide of the year, measuring 16 knots.   

Ed worked all the next day on the truck and fixed the problem.  We thanked Atom for his hospitality, and made our way for Ken Whitings house in Vancouver.   Ken took us to his backyard creek run, a beautiful class 4-5 gorge that was literally a 15 min walk from his suburban home.  The next morning Ed, Ken and myself took the half hour long ferry ride across Horseshoe bay toward Skookumchuck.  At this point it seemed that our luck had taken a drastic change in direction.  There wasn’t a cloud in the sky,  and we couldn’t have asked for a better group of friends to share the epic wave with.  That evening we witnessed a delapidated trailer burn to the ground in the town of Egmont.  Eletrical wires hanging near the fire caused a transformer to blow giving a nice fireworks display.  We camped on a freshwater lake and swam and laid out in the sun during the morning then surfed the wave during the tide change.  

It looks as though the truck is now fixed, thank god, out of money.   At this time I am splitting from Ed to produce an instructional video with Ken Whiting on the Ottawa River.  Ed is travelling south, spreading soul to all the Colorado festivals in June.  We will meet back up in New Mexico for a 4^th of July river bash on the Rio Grande, (everyone's invited).