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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 …
The Final Stretch From Riding Mountain National Park, we headed further west to Winnipeg. A quick stop here to catch up with friends and work before our return to Ontario. Winnipeg This time around since we weren’t in town long, we stayed at a hotel …
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 …
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 …
Meeting up with family, we head over to Richmond, BC and spend the night before our early rise to catch the ferry. We booked an early ferry in order to maximize our time in Tofino at the beach, but when it came time to wake …
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. …