what a wonderful trip janine .... one that i hope to make some day. thank
you for sharing.
ftr is one of my favorites too.
heather
At 05:11 PM 7/4/01 -0400, janine sherman wrote:
> Although I am 18 digests behind in my reading, I had to post ! We
> just
>returned from a wonderful two week Pacific NW vacation. I actually got my
>husband to drive north from Vancouver B.C.to Horseshoe Bay and we got on one
>of those big ferry boats with their bellies full of cars and tooted our way
>over to the Sunshine Coast. We had just been on an Inside Passage cruise in
>Alaska and the scenery there, near the Strait of Georgia, rivaled it squarely.
>This is the place where Joni's property is that she is so lovely perched on in
>the For the Roses' cover.
> Anyway, we proceeded north through Sechelt and on to Half Moon Bay and
>Middlepoint, running up and down that coastal highway trying to figure out
>which place had to be hers. We saw Lord Jim's Inn where she stayed while she
>was building the stone recluse (mentioned in the PWWM video- the knitting
>incident) I hopped out and went in and felt really dumb, but tried to act
>nonchalant and asked if anyone there knew her and which direction her place
>would be? They were VERY loyal to her privacy and tried to throw me off base
>and say they heard it was in Penders and other coastal areas. They did tell me
>that yes that is where she stayed when she was building the place in the 70's.
>So we went back to looking near that place and stopped in another Inn and a
>few folks sitting at the bar in the Jolly Roger were far less loyal and were
>able to tell us precisely where it was , but that there was a gate and maybe I
>should phone first! Phone first??? I didn't think to look to see if her number
>was in the white pages!
>So we drove back up to the apex of the highway right before Middlepoint and
>the new construction and below the 60KM sign and tried to find it, but it is
>so heavily wooded and I really did not want to invade her or her caretaker's
>privacy, so we just settled for where we thought it would be and tried to take
>some pictures of the waterfront that it looks like on the FTR album. What we
>realized was that just a week earlier our mega cruise ship left Vancouver and
>traveled through the Strait of Georgia right past her place . The stone
>cottage is supposed to be at sea level and could probably be seen from the
>water. That made me sad to think that she bought it for its wilderness beauty
>and there ain't much of that left now. At least she has a big enough spread
>that it keeps snoopers like me at bay. I just wanted to know in my heart that
>I was physically close to where she wrote a number of her earlier songs, esp.
>from FTR. It is an awesome area with some of the Mts.. still snow capped in
>July. When I get some of the pictures developed I will scan a few to the Yahoo
>group. Sorry to ramble so, but it was a high point. God bless my hubby who
>drove all over the place to help me with my dream and the two teenagers in the
>backseat wondering if I had lost it all together. As we drove back through
>Sechelt and waited for the return ferry, I wondered how many times she had
>driven there and waited on that same ground? In those same lines? Used the
>same restroom, okay now I am getting a little weird. I can not wait to see
>her in Toronto in October. My best to all, Janine
