Leslie Sank, Vancouver, the Tex's and Warren.

Thanks to Leslie Sank, I was able to spend an entire day with Dennis seeing his and other guys classic cars of the West Coast Hot Rods of Canada. This is a superb Model A Ford. It runs and is awesome.

1955 Ford Thunderbird. Fully restored and running. Just beautiful.

1937 Ford 5 Window Coup. Lovingly restored from a pile of parts off a farm. Strret Rod of note. Love the colour combo.

Hand built from scratch. No existing parts. 1932 Ford Duece Coup Replica

Rear view of this amazing project. The engine is a Buick V8 and runs beautifully. Full throated V8 burble.

Perfect '38 4 Door Sedan.

One of 3 in existance. This is the first Schlitz made. Runs perfectly.

Beautiful Ford 2 Door Sedan with new running gear. Used in the summer as a daily commuter when there is no rain. Perfect colour. Starts up first turn of the key. Newly upholstered comfortable seats (not original either). All these cars are in Langley South of Vancouver. The day out to see them was organized by Leslie Sank who I have known since the early 1970's and was one of his teachers at Rondebosch Boys High in 1976/7. He has a 4 Doctor practice in Langley and one of them is David Chapman (SACS 1982) who I had for Rowing as a cox thanks to Dave Swingler (1979). Leslie is an amazing person and he has fingers in many pies of the community as well as doing woodworking and unusual jewelry design using silver cutlery and other odds and ends. Hugely inventive. He gave me much sage advice about my 'retirement' and this crazy trip I am doing.

With Simon and Jundre Texiera and they took me to Cedar Mountain where the Olympics were partially held in 2008. Snow and some skiing still in May!

Some of the ski slopes at Cedar still open.

The view from Graham and Jundre Texiera's home in West Vancouver. Stunning.

View of Vancouver from the road above the city near the Tex's home. Bit misty 'as usual' for Vancouver if not rain!

One of the little waterfront villages in the Vabcouver area near the Tex's home.

View up one of the Fjords of Vancouver. It seems to go on forever.

The two Thomas children. Victor and Candice's two babies. They are about to move into a bigger and better apartment near the university. very nice area. New and growing.

Community garden near Victor and Candice's home just below the university. Beautiful black soil. My fingers were itching to dig and plant.

Ethan, Candice and Victor near their allotment. They are about to start the garden and I gave them a Black Cherry Tomato plant to start their 2014 garden.

Another view of the community gardens. Many Chinese and Korean ladies garden here for their restaurants.

Trees planted along the university lecture rooms and laboratories for shade and clean air..

Victor and I in the shade of a blossoming Cherry tree.

Victor and I in front and in the sun with the blossoming Cherry tree. So very good to be with him again and with Candice and to finally meet the children. Victor is doing amazing work both at the universoty in the Multi-faith Centre as well as community projects including nurturing the children of drug addict parents who don't care for their children. He also goes down into the city where there are a multitude of drug addict people within a few blocks of the centre of Downtown. I was totally gobsmacked to see drug dealing and taking and prostitution conducted openly on the streets. So incredibly sad in such a wealthy city.

On the raod to Creston. The first mountain range.

Not turning here, just heading for those mountians and the pass ahead!

Up into the snow again and the altutde gets higher and the car sucks air!

Nearing the high point of the passes. Luckily no rain! Poor Camry was 'sukkeling' at this point, but pulled through.

Destiny Bay on the road to Warren Clarke's home on 12006 Highway 3A! My GPS never let me forget what road I was on!

Warren's studio in his vast basement. His good lady's glass studio is also down here. It is really beautifully done by Warren. He and I were at UCT together doing Graphic Design at Michaelis School of Art. We have not seen each other for about 40 years. It was just so incredibly great to be together again.

One of Warren's amazing corrugated cardboard sculptures. It is 3D and just beautiful. He has a number in the studio and is thinking of an exhibition one day. Go Warren. They are just beautiful. They have Warren's signature cartoon character look about them. I love them. He also carves wooden salad spoons and he gave me one which I will treasure.

So, who knows what this is? Specific details please.

Another view in case you cannot work it out!

Warren's Koi pond. They built it themselves. The fish have produced a multitude of young this early in the Spring.

The Clarke home. They have done an amazing amount of work on it. The veg garden also has Hops for Warren's Beer making. And, I might add, it tastes very good. Rich and strong. Now that we have reconnected, I am going to miss him so very much. But, the journey continues.