This morning, I left the AirBnB at around 9:30AM to meet Michel, Julian, and Rachel at Six Mile Pub to carpool to East Sooke Park. Julian (20 years old) and Rachel (22 years old) are siblings from France that are traveling through BC for a couple of weeks on a really low budget. They are Couchsurfing with Michel for a few days and were very kind, friendly people.
After driving about 30 minutes to East Sooke Park, we met up with Tyler and Julie at the trailhead. At East Sooke Park, we hiked on the Coast Trail to Cabin Point, before walking back to the trailhead on another interior trail. The trail was beautiful, rugged, and followed the twists and turns of the coastline the entire way along the coast. During the hike, Julie (a personal trainer who is also passionate about diet) shared information about her Ketogenic/Intermittent-fasting diet. As a slim/petite women, she eats over 100 grams of fat every day, eats about 30-40 grams of protein each day, and avoids carbs as much as possible. She adheres to this Ketogenic diet without eating anything at all before 3PM. Every day, she eats just two meals, one at 3PM and one at 8PM. According to her, the 18 hours between her nightly meal and daily meal helps her organs to recover and not be overworked from constant eating throughout the day.
During the hike, Rachel and Julian mentioned that they’re planning on hitchhiking to Tofino tomorrow. Upon hearing that me, Julian, and Rachel are all planning on heading to Tofino tomorrow, Michel suggested that we should all plan a trip there and travel together. The costs of gas should be $25 each, which would be much cheaper than the $120 roundtrip Tofino Express bus service. For me this works out great, and it’s looking like we will actually be doing this.
On the way back from the hike, we decided to stop by Matheson Lake to go swimming. The water was refreshingly cold and all of us, swam to an island in the middle of the lake. We climbed up on the island, jumped back into the lake, and swam back to shore. The fifteen minute swimming was an incredible bonding experience and one of the highlights of the day. There’s just something about swimming in bodies-of-water in nature, which just makes for a blissful experience.
From Matheson Lake, Michel, Rachel, Julian, and I stopped by My Chosen Cafe, a cozy, character-filled cafe serving ice cream, coffee, food, and bakery goods. I ordered a coffee and banana/cream cheese cake, which was delicious. After leaving My Chosen Cafe, we parted ways and planned to meet up at 1:30PM at Michel’s place to carpool to Tofino.
As soon as I arrived at the AirBNB, I showered and left the house to meet Steve for dinner. About a week ago at Splash Symphony, we had an interesting conversation and he seemed like an interesting, unique, enthusiastic guy to have a very in-depth conversation with. We planned to meet at The Reef, a popular Caribbean restaurant in Victoria. The food was flavorful, unique, and a great experience in and of itself.
The conversation with Steve included the discussion on the following topics. Throughout the three hour conversation in the restaurant and on Yates Street, I was picking his brain and gaining incredible insights into a very unique, kind, hard-working, passionate and genuine person.
- Steve rented an AirBNB apartment for is 6 week stay in Victoria. It’s his first time using Airbnb, and he made a mistake of not reviewing the reviews well enough. apartment (first experience and $1,400/month)
- One of the reasons he chose to spend 6 weeks in Victoria is because he thinks the people here are extremely, polite, and kind, and that he will be much more successful in his personal relationships if he’s in this type of an atmosphere
- His gradual interest in the past 4-5 years in businesses, podcasts, affiliate website businesses (cell phones/music). After listening to the “Smart Passive Income w/ Pat Flynn,” he has began building websites to try to achieve passive income, which he finds to be almost impossible to achieve as a music teacher
- Recreational drug use (Most of our conversations were about this topic but I can’t disclose much of what we spoke about)
