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104 year's young | Back To The Land

104 year's young | Back To The Land

My encounter with Audrah was unexpected. I arrived in the small town of Minnedosa, a forty-minute drive North of Brandon. My spirits were high as I was finally out of mosquito and black fly riddled bogs. Before arriving, I was graciously offered an invitation to stay at a friend, relatives home, Gwen and Uncle Bob. Still wearing the same clothes after a week on the road, I desperately needed to see the inside of a shower. I think their hospitality was more pity than anything…

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Another random encounter in BC's Kootenays

Another random encounter in BC's Kootenays

In the last week of September 2017, my wife and I decided to do a quick eight-day road trip to the West Kootenays; two reasons, explore some new areas of British Columbia and secretly I wanted to photograph more people for my Back to The Land project. My wife continues to give me evil eyes if I don’t even humour the idea of bringing her along. Like any trip, we stop where ever we can pitching a tent in lieu of a hotel, cook food roadside because we can, annoy each other when we are bored and always keeping a keen interest to explore the things we both enjoy. Our approach may be slightly different from some and our motto is simple; we stop if it feels good and we keep going if it doesn’t. For us, it’s about trusting our intuition and just letting it

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