Our wee family enjoys adventures from the mini daytrip to the cross country/world journeys. Also check out our Insta feed @eightfeetonthego.
Another year, another try at the Ride for Heart. The annual fundraiser that closes down 2 major highways in downtown Toronto to allow pedestrians on to walk, run or ride. We were originally going to opt out this year since we had a major bathroom …
The camping season begins for 2018! Our annual trip to Mew Lake in Algonquin Park! It’s May, just barely, the temperatures have just been hovering around 28 DegC the last little while so why not…. Well… because it’s May…. and the weather is unpredictable. A …
Manitoba second round From Edmonton, we head further east. Today was the longest travel day of the trip. We were in the car for 12 hours to reach Riding Mountain National Park. Luckily the kids were fantastic, colouring, some tablet time and overall just arbitrary …
Goodbye West Coast Onwards and upwards into the mountains again, from Vancouver Island we head east again on the 2nd half of our journey and back home. We board our early morning ferry and head back to the mainland. We sadly part ways with our …
After an early morning pack up, we head back across the island from Tofino to Parksville and Rathtrevor Beach. Yet again, we experience a magnificient drive through the mountains and lakes to get through to the east side of the island. We arrived in Parksville …
The west coast The drive from Kelowna to Whistler was the less travelled option. We chose not to drive down through Vancouver as we would be doing that drive later in the trip so we detoured north through Merritt, Spence Bridges, Lilooet and Pemberton. The …
Another early morning rise and pack up and we were off to Kelowna. As we descended out of the mountains, the temperature quickly rose from the 1 degC we experienced at Lake Louise at 8 am to 28 degC in Kelowna. As our A/C had …
Our journey continued from Calgary into the foothills rather quickly and in the mountains… Gobsmacked by the sheer beauty of it all, we made our way to Banff National Park. Hiccup Amidst admiring all of the beauty we suddenly heard a pop and uh ohhh… …
But Moose Jaw First The departure from Winnipeg was supposed to lead to the flat plains of the prairies… We reached the border of Saskatchewan and were quickly surprised by the rolling hills. The hills were mostly pasture and some crops. Upon arriving in Moose …
Flat plains of …. Manitoba!? Leaving Thunder Bay, the scenery through the last part of Ontario was suddenly very different from the hills and lakes surrounding Lake Superior. The land all around us started to flatten out. We even passed into another time zone. Who …