2014 Three Month Western Canada / United States Trip
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January 2013: Starting at the Beginning
Well the beginning would actually have been quite a few years ago when I started nagging Mike about taking three months off …
Summer 2013: To Rent or To Buy
To rent or to buy? It wasn’t really a question as we haven’t bought a new car in over 20 years. So …
To Tow or Not To Tow?
Whether we are in a campground for a few days or in an area where the terrain is unfriendly to large motorhomes …
Last Minute Actions
So after six different trips to Hitch City the car can finally be towed. Shouldn’t the word alarm mean that it goes …
On the Road (to Walmart)
Day 01 Saturday August 2 We did it! We have started our trip. A few minor problems hooking up the car. I …
Day 2 to North Bay
So it is day 2 and we have just left Walmart in Wasaga Beach on our way to Sudbury. We just drove …
Day 3 to Swastika, Ontario
Day 3, holiday Monday, and we are heading north. Since Mike hadn’t heard back from his friend in Sudbury we decided to …
Swastika and then Moonbeam, Ontario
Day 4 and 5 The campground in Swastika was very nice; quiet and peaceful. Mike and I started the day by trying …
Bits and Pieces
It is day 6 and we have just left Hearst, Ontario enroute slowly to Thunder Bay. This might be another night staying …
Northern Ontario – still – it’s a big province
Day 7 YEAH, I got my map working for this blog, finally. Maybe it isn’t perfect but it does what I want. …
Red Rock Folk Festival
Well plans changed again. Isn’t that what holidays are for. Enroute to Thunder Bay we drove past a turnoff for the town …
Week One is Over
Our first week is over, eleven to go. We gave up on our plan to keep following Hwy 11 to the end. …
Winnipeg and Folklorama 2014
I am writing this on the road just leaving Winnipeg where we have spent the last three nights. Mike had to attend …
Getting to Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan August 15
Short update. Mike and I have made it into Saskatchewan. We got up this morning in Manitoba planning on going for a bike …
Hornets, Lakes and Campers
We have just spent a couple of days in Cold Lake, Alberta home to a Canadian Forces base. Some of you may …
Speed Bumps are Hills
OK, maybe that is a little bit of an exaggeration but anything larger than speed bumps are hills when we are on …
Oil Sands Town – better known as Fort McMurray, Alberta
Mike and I have just spent a very pleasant three days in Fort McMurray. We have family there and they did a …
Rubber on the Road
It is 9pm on Monday night and I am sitting alone in our RV in a parking lot in Fort McMurray. 10:30 …
Long Slow Day
On Tuesday morning we left Fort McMurray for the second time. Our route had changed and we were now heading for Slave …
Enroute to Jasper – NOT!
We started out this trip on the August 1 long weekend and ended up spending our first night in a Walmart parking …
Jasper in the clouds
Disappointingly our trip to Jasper wasn’t our best day. We had originally hoped to park the RV near Jasper and then use …
Jasper and Banff National Parks
Today is catchup in my writing. I hope to get this posted sometime soon but we are in an area of no …
Memory Lane, Southern BC
Well it is now Monday and I haven’t uploaded my last article yet. I will probably upload both together when I finally …
Leaving Canada
After 37 days travelling across Canada we are heading south into the US towards Yellowstone Park. I thought that I would write …
Big Sky Country
We have been in the US for a couple of days and are just heading into Yellowstone National Park. On our first …
Banff or Yellowstone – which will it be
Mike and I have just left Yellowstone where we have had no internet and largely no cell service for four days so …
Yellowstone National Park
We entered Yellowstone through their north entrance. The first thing that we saw was steam coming up from the puddles on the …
Salt Lake City
We booked into a campground in Salt Lake City for two nights, we then extended it to three nights and again extended …
Photo Gallery finally created
As promised I have uploaded some photos to give an idea of what we have seen throughout our trip. I will be …
Moab, Utah – Great Area
Thank-you Harold, Jim, friends in New York and everyone who told us that we should make sure to stop in Moab while …
Gorgeous Bryce Canyon
Bryce Canyon is gorgeous! Hoodoos are skinny towers of rock that, in Bryce Canyon, can be from 5 feet to 150 feet …
Scale is Everything!
We have just spent the last couple of days in Zion Canyon National Park and like everything else in this area it …
Fabulous Day
What a fabulous day! We spent today driving and walking around the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It is a few …
Balloon Fiesta
Mike and I are just leaving Albuquerque and heading south. We spent almost four days in Albuquerque during their huge hot air …
“C” for Cotton and Chalk
After leaving Albuquerque we next stopped near a town call Las Cruces. We didn’t actually see the town. The entire area is …
The Bat Caves
First things first. Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian family and friends. Changing our route to visit Carlsbad Caverns was definitely the …
Monuments and Memorials
We have covered some ground since I last wrote. We did visit Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas. In Lubbock we went to tour …
Route 66
We left the current capital of Oklahoma for the original historic capital Guthrie. The creation and settlement of Guthrie occurred in less …
Missouri the “Show-Me” state
Missouri doesn’t score really high marks for its uniqueness of town names. The other night we stayed in Lebanon. We have either …
Cleveland
Mike and I left St. Louis Missouri and then drove through Indiana enroute to Cleveland Ohio. Somewhere we went from central to …
Sore Anatomy
I am writing this sitting on one very sore, probably black and blue bum. Mike and I drove to the Cuyahoga Valley …
Final Days
Now our trip is basically about getting home via a scenic drive around the southern side of Lake Erie. We intended to …
Our Trip is Over :-(
Was our trip great – absolutely it was phenomenal! Mike and I had a really, really super time and neither of us …