Getting to Ty Mynydd

When you arrive at Swartz Bay via B.C. Ferry from Tsawwassen, you exit from the ferry on Highway 17. (It's called Pat Bay Highway by locals and on many maps, but few signs say that.) Proceed about twenty minutes to McKenzie Avenue• and turn right. Turn right at Highway One. Pass the Colwood-View Royal exit, proceeding to the next one, Langford-Sooke. Stay in the South (left) of the two exit lanes, which curves around onto the Millstream Bypass (signage says "Veterans Memorial Parkway").

Stay on the bypass (moving to centre lane), passing Can West Shopping Centre, and later crossing Sooke Road. The bypass ends in a T at Latoria. Turn right, passing the Olympic View Golf Course, until Latoria ends in a T at Happy Valley Road. Turn left. Turn right (just after the large teal house on your right) on Lindholm Road.

Our drive is on the left, 4493 Lindholm Road, "Ty Mynydd". Our log house is the one at the top of the private driveway (the lower one is younger son Matthew's).

If coming from town, Douglas Street turns into Highway One, and then proceed as above.

• Scenic route alternative: before McKenzie, turn right on Royal Oak. It becomes in turn Wilkenson (notice the red brick prison which looks like a castle on right), and then Helmcken Rd. Turn right on Highway One just after passing the Hospital, and exit as above at Langford-Sooke.