Bigass Weekend Wrap-Up: Road Trip! Up-Island to Powell River (Bonus Shopping Expedition!)

Hello, my friends, I'm home! L and I drove up-Island (as we locals call it) and took a ferry to go visit L's mom and brother in Powell River.  Here we are rockin' it out on the ferry, many hours after we started, but I'll get to that shortly. I have oodles of travel pictures - I live in a cool place - and stuff to show you, so let's get 'er going. Thursday night, getting our stuff together.