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Desert Spring
A longtime friend of mine and I were chatting and decided that our recent return to bachelorhood should be marked with a trip. A short winter getaway of sorts. We tossed around a few ideas and settled on Palm Springs, California. We also decided that we would throw in a roadtrip to Death Valley, a…
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Final thoughts on the big road trip
We’ve been back home almost a week now and getting settled back into our usual routine. It feels like we’ve been away for months not weeks – perhaps the effect of having travelled 16,000 km. We managed to fit in 14 US and Canadian National Parks, Monuments or Forests (Arches, Bryce, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Zion, Grand…
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100th Meridian
Our time in Manitoba was primarily for visiting family. Our drive from Saskatoon brought us through vast fields as far as the eye could seen, some planted, many not yet as it has been a very cool wet spring. By mid afternoon we had arrived in Carberry MB, a matchbox-sized town just off the Trans…
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Crossing the Great Plains
After leaving Banff our next destination was Waterton Lakes National Park in the extreme southwest of Alberta along the US border. Instead of driving east toward Calgary we decided to duck back into BC and follow highways 93 and 95 through Kootenay National Park. Backtracking into the interior Rockies through Vermilion Crossing, the highway brings…
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I would drive 12,000 kilometres…
Apologies to The Proclaimers. So we are currently at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta. It’s taken over 12,000 km of driving, two oil changes and some pretty serious tunage to get us this far. What does one listen to in the car for hours on end each day? Well I put together a play list…
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Rocky Mountain High
John Denver sang this song about the Rockies in Colorado but it could equally apply to Alberta’s Icefields Parkway, one of the most scenic drives in Canada. The road passes through a valley with a massive wall of snow capped, sharp peaked mountains on either side. Our favourite section of the road is at the…
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Back to the Mainland
We left Tofino in the morning wet tent packed in the back of the car. The route across the island is slower than usual these days as a result of a major landslide last year at Kennedy Lake. The massive project to rebuild the road to its former self means one lane traffic and scheduled…
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A City for a Queen
Victoria is the sleepy capital of British Columbia. Many visitors to the province seeking the city experience opt instead to visit the shiny metropolis, Vancouver, and if you’re a fan of Vancouver Island’s wilderness, you’re probably not terribly interested in visiting cities to begin with. So Victoria’s tourists tend to be of the cruise ship…
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Northbound
We had a long day of driving ahead of us, leaving central California and making our way to the Redwood country north of Eureka and the Bay area. It was a bit of a shock to return to civilization and to have to deal with the traffic of the central valley and counties east of…
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California Dreamin’
We departed Fossil Falls as the morning’s first light was breaking over the eastern mountains. We had a long day ahead of us as we decided to squeeze in a visit to Sequoia National Park on our way to Yosemite. Both of these parks are gems in the US parks system so to skip one…
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