Me and the Wifey are headed to CANADA!!!!

[SwissBliss]

Whats up guys,

Its sure has been awhile since I last posted, and even longer since I last toked, but I am with you in spirit. I am in the Army and getting ready to take leave again. Currently we are in South Korea, and I am trying to plan the most herb-friendly vacation possible. Last year we went home to Texas and had a big wedding and honeymooned in Keystone, CO. We had an absolute blast, snowboarding is the shit.

So this December we are going to take another 30 days of leave and hit up the mountains again. Right now I am in the very early initial planning stages. Last year I planned everything to a T and it went very very smooth, and I hope to do the same this year. I am probably going to fly Space Available military flight (on a cargo plane for $30) into Seattle and rent a car. I am trying to find a good monthly rate on a place either in Whistler or Vancouver. You can get really great deals from VRBO.com (vacation rentals by owner) and other online sites.

I am going to have 30 days of leave and a budget of about $5000 for two people. I figure about $800 for a car rental, hopefully under $2000 for lodging, we plan to ski for about a week so $700 or so for lift tickets (I hope they have a military discount), which leaves $1500 or so for pot, mushrooms, gas, food, etc. We plan to just relax for most of the time, and experience canada. I will end up spending 20 or so days in Canada, as the Military Flights will probably come with some delays and I need to allot for that to happen. We hope to score alot of awesome bud, hit up some awesome headshops, and have alot of fun.

The reason for this thread is hopefully some of you canadians from the BC area can suggest places for me to visit, and other tips to make the trip a little more smooth. Lodging I am still trying to figure out. I could really use some advice here. I really don't want to spend an arm and a leg on a shitty hotel. Would I be better off in Whistler or Vancouver? I know it is a bit of a drive but it would make for cheaper lodging. Do you think scoring bud and mushrooms would be pretty easy. I haven't smoked in about a year and this is really critical. I also plan to purchase some nice glass, are the headshops any good?

Sorry for all of the questions but I am really trying to plan everything right. I am taking leave in a country I have never been for a month, and really want everything to go well. Any advice you could give me is truly appreciated.

Thanks!!

~SB~

 

[Classyathome]

Sativa Sisters is very green friendly lodgings - Vansterdam is awesome.

Watch out for the junkies / injection site areas

Enjoy

 

[Guest]

Hey SwissBliss! Yeah I remembered your posts from awhile ago. Sounds like your gonna have a fun time! Once you get in and relax, and puff on some weed, I'm sure the details for what you should do for your trip will just fall into place. Have fun, peace.

 

[Guest]

Just be sure and get yourself to amsterdam and then go skiing in the alps.

 

[SwissBliss]

I am slowly figuring things out. I think after we land in Seattle, we are going to rent a car and drive to Vancouver that day. Then stay a few nights at the Sativa Sisters Bed and Breakfast. It is part of the New Amsterdam Seed Co., and they deliver right to your door, which is completely awesome. Then after a few days there (@$200 a night) I think we will head up to Whistler.

~SB~

 

[Classyathome]

You're welcome

 

[LOVELYJUGS]

I'm with ya!

I'm with ya!

Can i come ?

 

[SwissBliss]

Classyathome- Sorry about that, I forgot who gave me that recommendation. Thanks so much. The Sativa Sisters looks like the absolute perfect place! We are going to stay two nights there. I am sure they can get us the hook up on the best bud in BC. Hopefully they can also find us some mushies and other stuff, but I am not going to press my luck.

Then we are staying for two weeks in a killer cabin right off the slopes. 2 bedroom with military discount. Regular $395 a night, I talked them into $87 a night. KILLER. We are going to snowboard for 6 days and go snowmobiling, atv riding, sleigh riding, bungee jumping, dogsledding, and potsmoking for the rest of the time. It is going to be a blast!

A few questions:

How tolerant will they be up there to public, in the open, walking down the street, in the lift line, or on the ganjala toking?

Also, what are some badass head shops?

And what can I expect to pay for 2 ounces of the absolute BEST (hopefully a few different varieties) bud in Vansterdam, from the Sativa Sisters?

If any BC heads want to meet up, send me a PM!!

Thanks for all of the info, advice, and help!!!
~SB~

 

[Storm Crow]

Hey, ask over at treatingyourself.com a Canadian MMJ site. - Granny

 

[dbcooper]

Wow that's a change in scenery, heard Vancouver like they said is nice, anything is better than Garry Owen and those load ass bradley's lol at least for me.

 

[SwissBliss]

Cool update and how i got two roundtrip tickets to Vancouver and Dallas for $500:

Yeah, we are really stoked. My dad and his gf are going to meet us up there for a few days. Growing up he was extremely anti-pot and we really butted heads, and he is still pretty much the same way. Him and my mom just went through a divorce, and he is kinds starting to live life the way we wants. He is buying a badass porsche 996 targa top (glass roof that slides back into a semi-convertible) and I will be able to drive it when I go home, I am really exited. 6 speed manual, 4wd, turbo, 0-60 in 4.2 seconds.

Anyway, I just got a steal on airfare. I was going to take a military flight for free, but I would be riding with my wife on the back of a cargo plane with an elephant for like 3 days, if I am lucky. It is space available, and so you can get bumped at anytime due to mission requirements. My buddy got stuck in Japan coming back from leave for 5 days and was late, kinda got into some shit. But anyway, I was going to have my dad fly me home with his frequent flyer miles like he did last year. Round Trip from Korea to anywhere in North America is 60,000 round trip per person. Japan to North America is only 50,000. But, problem is, my mom got half the miles and it got complicated, so I started searching. AirGorilla had two round trip tickets to Seattle from Korea for 908 each. Thats 1800 total plus taxes. Kinda expensive.

So I had to decide on the itinerary. My ideal plan is to Fly straight from Korea into Sea or Vancouver. Rent a car and drive up to Vancouver/Whistler, stay with the Sativa Sisters for two days, stay in the cabin for two weeks and board/chill, and then drive across Canada smoking badass bud enjoying the drive, then down to visit my grandparents in IL. The drive through America to IL is like 12 hours shorter than through Canada, but I have a feeling the canada has a way better scenic 3 day drive, plus I hate dealing with American pigs. Then, after spending like 4 or 5 days with my grandparents in central Illinois, a 12 hour drive, back down to dallas. Then we would ideally fly out of DFW.

This is my master plan, for a 30 day killer vacation, which is the max leave I can take. That allows for pot smoking through approximately 17 of the days, from the day I step foot into Canada, until the day I cross the border into America. I might be tested when I get back and figure 13 days should be enough to get clean.

Anyway, for a multi-city flight like that, it puts it up to almost double, at $1800 a person, $3600 total, which is crazy expensive. I have a $5-7000 budget, which would tighten everything up completely.

SO, like I said, I got to searching. I checked ebay for airline tickets, and it appears they don't really sell them. However, they do have a lucrative market for frequent flyer miles, something I was amazed at and never really knew about. Turns out it is an industry all its own, the miles market, the buying and selling of miles. You can obviously get them alot cheaper than the airlines sell them for, but still pretty expensive. A little more than it would cost for a ticket. Like I said before, I need either 100,000 miles or 120,000 miles to fly to North America, from South Korea and Japan respectively. I can either get a military flight to Japan and then hop on a commercial plane, or fly straight from South Korea, which is preferred (I don't like elephants).

SO, I searched ebay, and over 100,000 miles runs for $1800 or more, not buy it now, straight auction style. Good thing about Miles is that you can do the multi-city thing no problem, no penalty. So that right there puts me cheaper than I was looking to buy a ticket. I have the miles blackout dates to work around, but I should be allright. I don't have very much liquid cash saved up though. I make over 4000 a year (approx. 50k a year) in the Army deployed overseas in Korea, and save about 2200 a month, but it all goes to my Merrill Lynch Personal Financial Adviser, who buys mutual funds for me. So I kept searching in the hopes of finding cheaper miles, as this was getting to be the plan. When asking my father for advice on the itinerary and how to plan it, he gave me some advice to leave the miles thing out of the equation as they are expensive, hard to earn, and you need so many of them from Korea. BUT!!!! I was searching google and came upon the infamous Craigslist! I swear, you could get a sexchange from that site, they have anything you want. Anyway, came across this ad for over 100,000 miles, didn't list a price, and said that the early bird gets the worm. Well I emailed her and left my phone number, and she called me back. Anyway, turns out that she is recently divorced, and I assume she either got half or all of her husband's miles. Hell, maybe she got them for flying for her company, I dunno, but anyway, she has 102,000, which is a shitload. She seemed to have fallen upon some hard times though, as when we started to talk pricing she said the only reason that she is trying to sell them is because she needs to get her car out of the shop and that it costs $300. She said that they are probably worth more but she didn't really no or care, she just needs her car out of the shop. When I asked if I could pay by wiring her money she told me she didn't have a checking account, and she said a Western Union payment would be better. I said wow, didn't really allude to my knowledge of their real value, and told her that she had a deal. In fact, I told her, since she is helping me out by allowing a soldier to get home from overseas to spend Christmas with his wife, that I am going to help her out and give her an extra $100 for the miles.

I called Merrill Lynch, had them sell $1000 worth of shares and the cash will be available Thursday, which is when I plan to pay her. She is then going to give me her full Delta Skymiles Account number and Pin, and I plan to get it from her on the phone and login to check the authenticity of it, and when we both approve, send the cash.

I am going to use the remaining $600 to either buy between 18,000 and 25,000 miles to be on the safe side, and then I would be set. Problem is that to transfer miles, Delta charges a penny per mile plus a $25 transaction fee, which would equate to $205-275 bucks, plus what I pay for them. Another option would be to fly out of Japan and only be charged 100,000 miles and not have to buy any more. Either get to Japan with a cheap civilian flight or go military. Military won't be that bad because they have flights everyday to Japan and only once a week from Japan to US, although the Airforce base is way way down south and we would have to get all the way to Tokyo. But I have plenty of options and it is really looking good. Either way, I have found two round trip tickets from South Korea/Japan into Vancouver and out of Dallas back to South Korea/Japan for less than $500. Is that a steal or what. If I didn't need the tickets I could sell the miles for almost $2000 on eBay!!!

Anyway, what do you guys think, any advice for me?
Ill try and keep you informed and definitely update you when we actually make the trip, before and after. It should be a blast. I bought a high def camcorder for $500 from eBay (Canon HV10) so we should have plenty of awesome pictures and HD Video, I will try to get it up. 3 months might seem so far away to you guys, but for somebody like me, it is just around the corner.

~SB~

 

[bongasaurus]

was just about to say make sure you got your camera but sounds like you got that more than covered

im sure youll have a great time in canada