4 - Wednesday, August 20, 1986 - North Shore News oh ™ Musicians play Bob Hunter ® strictly personal ® {T USED to be that distance guaranteed adventure. You couldn't travel a long distance without a lot of excite- ment. The Jet Age has changed this utterly. Looking back over the last few years, even though | have travel- led to probably a dozen coun- tries, most of the adventures have occurred right here on the home grounds. Of course 1 define a perfect trip in a jet as a blank spot. My most successful voyage ever, in that light,was a recent (rip to New Zealand. Climbing on board a 747 in Vancouver, I dropped a sleeping pill and woke up 17 hours later as we were landing in Auckland. boat through the Second Nar- rows against the Mood at low tide. Doing this the other weekend, with my family aboard. we en- countered one of those combina- tions of circumstances that sud- denly get the adrenalin stoshing. We only go about six knots, with @ fop speed of maybe eight, The tide had to be running at least five, with plateaus of glassy upboding water, whirlpools, con- fused chop, rippled water. We made progress, but we had to keep our nose directly into the current or we'd be shoved off to one side or the other, AEE EP ‘An old seadog guru of mine had told me when you're in one of these situations to ‘run in the rippled water’, which is what I was happily doing until a cabin cruiser twice our size overtook us on the starboard and another cruiser, about the same size, thundered by at full throttle on the port, their owners merrily waving over our heads at each other from their two-storey-high flying bridges.”’ Even if you are awake, the mighty adventure of leaping from continent to continent in a single bound has been basically reduced to watching a movie and having dinner out, The statistics still hold, by the way: flying on a commerical jetliner is the safest, even if dullest, way to travel. Where I get my real travel kicks — as opposed to the thrill of a new destination — is down at ground and water level. Theoretically, just being in another country should be an adventure, but the truth is, for me, instinct dictates a degree of caution while on strange turf. At home, | can get into more trouble becuse I'm more confident. It can be something as ‘‘sim- ple’’ as taking my little 26-foot An old seadog guru of mine had told me when you’re in one of these situations to ‘trun in the rippled water,’? which is what ! was happily doing until a cabin cruiser twice our size overtook us on the starboard and another cruiser, about the same _ size, thundered by at full throttle on the port, their owners merrily waving over our heads at cach other from their two-storey-high flying bridges. | should have waved at some- body too, but I was suddenly too busy at the wheel, you know? Fve heard one ctefinition of a real crisis at sea being a situation that caused the captain to put down his rum and coke. Like that. The two tather massive wakes _ collided directly in front of my own bow at a point where the RALL?’ THIS WEEKEND Residents gather fo promote peace ABOUT 60,000 people are ex- pected to come together to cele- brate ‘‘inner peace’’ at the B.C. Place Stadium Saturday. The event, called the Journey to Peace, takes place from noon to 9 p.m. Organizers from the Vancouver Centre for Inner Vision said it will help celebrate the United Nations 1986 Year of Peace. Some of the keynote speakers and performers include writer Alan Cohen, author Terry Cole-Whit- taker, singers Ann Mortifee and Leon Bibb, the Vancouver Children’s Choir, choreographer James Hibbard, psychologist Dr. Serge King and Charles Lawrence, an expert on American Indian rit- ual and custom, Metis spiritual teacher Bryan Livingstone, song- writer David Pomeranz,and Austin Repath, a writer from Toronto. Repath will help lead the Journey to Peace to B.C. Place Stadium. Dr. Scout Lee, the Journey to Peace’s ‘‘chief navigator’’ is the founder of the Magical Child Foundation. Her philosophy is that “individuals are in harmony and are at their human best when they’re having fun." Tickets, also known as ‘‘boar- ding passes,’’ are available at the Vancouver Ticket Centre and CBO outlets. The cost is $19.50 for adults, $13.50 for children and seniors. There is reserved seating. Journey to Peace is a benefit event. The net proceeds will be divided among UNICEF, British Columbians for Mentally Handi- capped People, affiliated with the Family Support Institute, the At- titudinal Health Centre and the Magical Child Foundation. Organizers said the idea to hold Journey to Peace began in December, 1985 over a cup of cof- fee. They say they wanted it to ac- cur during Expo 86. They say the Journey to Peace is a “large scale’’ public statement that the individual counts and that he does have power to shape the future lato one of peace. seater was already fizzed up into a minor maelstrom. Running avainse the tide with as hittle power to spare as To had. there wasn’t much proom. tor manocusering. A tot of stuff went fying and there were screams from all over the boat as we went up, down, sideways, backwards and nearly over allat once. [don't know if adrenalin has the same effect on vou as it does on me, bur it is one of the better drugs, that’s for sure, In the near-panic of the mo- ment, everything shone with a special clarity, as it tends to when doom looms. The great bridge above seemed as mysterious as an iron Ring of Saturn and just as far out of reach. The boat kept her centre of gravity as beautifully as ga dancer. The waves embraced ex- plosively, sleeting the windshield with spray. I got the feeling this was a bit like what dice must experience when they’re being rattled in a cup. I must admit there was a mo- ment there when, if I had had cannons, I would have opened up at both cruisers as they streaked away in opposite directions. But the rage passed away quickly. All that was left was a glow of triumph. We had surviv- ed! Yahoo! Scale. That’s what it must come down to. Here was a perfectly minor adventure — get- ting splashed a bit under the Se- cond Narrows — yet it was more exciting by far than gazing down at the ocean from seven miles. What the jet has really done by bringing distant places so close together in terms of how long it takes to get there, is to make the places in between seem further apart. Of course (you knew I was go- ing to say this) it’s all relative. G'nite. for Rick NORTH VANCOUVER’S Water- front Park will pulse to the beat of jazz, reggae and blues Saturday when various local musicians con- verge on the area to give a benefit concert in aid of Rick Hansen's fund for spinal cord resedreh. Organizer Dave Taylor says he ts hoping to have at feast 300 people attend the event, which features bands such as the four-member Jazmin, Flesh and Fortune and North Vancouver's: own Moodyville Blues Band. Taylor says he is trying to get the band Silverlode and jazs player Keith Bennett ‘to do one or two songs.” Bennett, whe frequently plays at Vancouver's Landoiack Jazz Bar, is “pretty hot right now,” says Taylor. But he remains cautious. One of the members of Silverlode is get- ting married the next day ‘so it might be tough getting them.”’ The five-member band Flesh and Fortune puts out what Taylor calls ‘*a sort of new wave sound — it's not quite rock.’’ Reggae fans can ’ Fine Cuisine Be Bistro Bar fom 5PM... Hansen look forward to an open jam with the T&F Root Reggae Rock Revue at the end of the concert, Adinission to the concert is) by Jonation with all proceeds going to the Rick Hansen fund for spinal cord research, After the show opens with some live jaze at 2 pom... a talent show will kick off for would-be pertor- mers prave enough to dare the stage. First, second and third place winners will wath off with prizes donated by area merchants. Taylor cannot say what the prizes will be, but says: We're going after a dinner for two or three or maybe the whole Camily."" The drum-playing Taylor ex- plains that the organizing body — the Moodyville Minstral's Guild — is a collection of local musicians who are trying to promote what he terms Third World music. “That's reggae, ska, soca, salsa, afro and juju,” he says, “Ht's going to be a great time, Taylor predicts, ‘tas long we can get the people." } Deep Cove, North Vancouver 4 & for-reservations ph. 929-2373 Ls Summer Sale in West Van at 14th & Bellevue From Thursday August 14th to Labour Day All Sale Items At Il. Price Choose from the finest coordinates imported from France, Germany, Italy. Skirts, pants, shorts and shirts in cool crisp cotton and linen, sumptuous silk blouses, classic leather pants and comfortable knit tops and sweaters. Plenty of colours and sizes, all 50% off. 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