Free Inquiry Week 3
This weeks page is photos collected from my trip to Nelson this summer. I introduced myself to Canva this week to make this collage and used the free polaroid frames and different “texture” stickers to lay out a background. I also included some free stickers that I found on Canva that I felt matched the travel, and colour theme and the overall mood of the trip. I then uploaded the PDF from Canva into GoodNotes for the text and hand written captions on the polaroid photo frames.
Although it was completely an impromptu trip, I think that is what made it so great. My 3 friends and I had spent the last year apart and wanted a week away to spend reconnecting with each other and with the beautiful land we are lucky to live so close to. Our goal of this trip was to do and see as much as we could without any planning, we would see where the wind took us and say yes! to every opportunity that comes our way. We immediately booked off the next week of work, threw all the bathing suits we owned into a backpack and jumped into our cars. We made beds in our trunks, brought coolers for our food and threw the skateboards in last minute as a form of transportation.
We kicked off the road trip with a quick stop at A&W for a mandatory pre-road trip veggie burger and drove from Penticton to Osoyoos before our first stop where we pulled over along the road to watch the sunset over the valley and Osoyoos lake, it was gorgeous. We continued on the 4 hour drive to Nelson stopping along the way to swim in every body of water we came across and stopping at fruit stands along the way for our meals, 8 hours and lots of swimming later we made it in to Nelson just in time for karaoke night at one of the bars in town, we slept on an empty dirt road beside the river that night but not without going for one last midnight swim. We filled the next days with lots of beach time, reading, dancing and singing – we found rope swings and cliff jumped and cooked every meal in the sand or grass on our 2 burner kitchen stove. We laid in the grass and spoke our goals into existence, we let the heat of the sun warm our faces until it was too bright to see the clouds in the sky. My 3 main highlights of the trip were getting my first tattoo, the 10km hike we did to Kokanee Glacier where we got caught in the rain and made the truck back down a mudslide and beaching my car at 4 o’clock in the morning while trying to find the best view for the next morning (thank you to my parents for the BCAA membership I was gifted for Christmas years ago).
We lived in our wet bathing suits, with unwashed, unbrushed hair, and didn’t see our shoes until it was time to leave. Which to be fair is how we live life back in the Okanagan, but this time we let our phones die and made it about the 4 of us.
For anyone who wants here is one of the playlists we listened to because I learned how to embed links this week:) Cheers!
