A few years ago, we traveled to Prince Rupert, Canada, to house swap with a family we met on our second big road trip, the one where we drove and ferried from Seattle to Alaska and back, documented in OPEN ROAD. Along that route, we made friends with Mark and Justine of Cassiar Cannery, a restored cannery boasting cabin lodgings on the tidal banks of an enormous wild river in British Columbia called the Skeena.
It had taken a lot of plotting with calendars and back-and-forth emails, but we’d arranged for a straight-across swap where we’d stay in one of the cabins on the Skeena, and Mark, Justine and their little Nicholas (plus other assorted relatives) would vacation in our Maui house.
We scheduled the swap for September: after their main tourist season, but not so late that the weather had “turned intense, as it does anytime after October,” Justine said.
Trying to be as cheap and direct as possible, Mike and took an ove…
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