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So, it’s taken me quite a long time to get all the Canada 150 posts out there…. and life has a habit of getting in the way….. Seeing as this fall and winter have flown by with lots of fun events, I thought I’d try to …
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… …
Another early morning rise, to make it to Calgary to drop off our trailer so we could take it to the car dealership …AGAIN…. Since the A/C quit…. Even though… we just spent an ungodly amount in Winnipeg to have everything fixed… We make do with …
….AND MORE DINOSAURS….. Awoke early in the morning and packed up ready to head on our next adventure…. Drumheller and the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller. Royal patronage was bestowed upon the museum in 1990. (I suppose this is technically our 2nd brush with royalty. …
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 …
*** sorry for the delay***….. Little did i know how sketchy cell service would be across Canada. I’ve been trying to keep up with writing this blog but uploading it was another story. So… I’m a little behind. My apologies to those of you who …
From Sudbury, we headed west and hugged the coast along the North Channel, past Sault Ste. Marie and then up to Lake Superior Provincial Park. The shorter trees of Sudbury made way for tall pines again as they lined the hills on either side of …