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