Journey for a Tobacco-Free World

– or – ’CSIS’ and ‘ROASTS’ take on whole new meanings! For me, CSIS means ‘Constantly Soaked In Sweat’ (although with a sudden change in weather over the last couple of days, I may soon have to change ‘Sweat’ to ‘Snow’)!  And “ROASTS”?  Well, besides very accurately describing what I’ve been doing quite consistently for […]

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I start from the west side of Winnipeg today.  42 kilometres per day is, relatively speaking, a piece of cake; it’s the incredible heat (high 20s, low 30s), combined with very high humidity (or the “sweat factor”, as they call it on the weather reports) that’s the really brutal part.  In the exact same way […]

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Well, it’s DAY 66 of the JTFW.  And it’s a Wednesday, which means it’s a “day off”!  So why am I sitting in a library for at least an hour doing this update, to be followed by contacting a bunch of media down the road, then laundry, shopping, wash and vac the van, shower at […]

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Day 53 of the JTFW…and I’m off to a late start (from just east of Swift Current, Saskatchewan), so gotta keep this short. Everything is going very well: Public support is amazing, media support is running a close second and political support is a very distant third. Obviously, I’m hoping the political support catches up […]

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Day 45 — a well-deserved day off, if I may be so bold — finds the JTFW in Medicine Hat, Allberta…and the Saskatchewan border is only 2 days away!  Yee hah! Yesterday was the absolute worst day of the entire trek (weather-wise), thus far.  The day before (Day 43), one of our Saskatchewan colleagues called […]

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Six days after starting treatment for a pretty serious infection in my lower right leg (at Mineral Springs Hospital in Banff), I was back on the road…getting back into it gently:  July 1, I did 10 km; July 2nd 20, July 3rd 30 and July 4th, I did the full 42…and have continued to do […]

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Yesterday (June 28), the awesome staff at a clinic in Calgary did an ultrasound, which ruled out a clot in my lower right leg.  And today, I had my last IV for the infection…and have been switched to oral antibiotics.  This whole experience has been quite a wake-up call for me, regarding the extreme importance […]

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Some good news…and some not so good news. The first day of the B.C. leg of the JTFW was absolutely incredible!  The first day of the Alberta leg; not so much. On Friday, June 25, after 37 kilometres (from the B.C./Alberta border to Castle junction), I had to take a break…and we went to Mineral […]

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Greetings, EVERYONE! My most humble apologies for not writing/updating long before now; this Journey has been a wild, crazy, hectic, whirlwind experience.  The days on the road are very long.. snack and lunch breaks included, often 9 or 10 hours.  And when media people (newspaper and radio) call for interviews, I have to try to […]

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Blogger and former President of Airspace Action on Smoking and Health Bob Broughton met up with Errol on the Coquihalla Highway, 15 km. east of Hope. Here’s his story: Errol Povah’s Journey for a Tobacco-Free World It says that Errol will be in Merritt on June 11, and Kamloops on June 13.

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