Category: The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip
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Test Driving The New Tires, Maritimes Here I Come
Hello intrepid virtual travellers….spoiler alert… we all got back safe from the trip. As so often happens, I got back and still had half a trip to write about and 10,000 photos to sort through. But, having settled back into city life and work I can pickup where we left off, with 4 nice new…
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So much for whizzing through Ontario and Quebec Eastbound
Ontario here we come! From Brandon off we went to Dryden Ontario, in Treaty 3 Territory, home of pulp and paper, 7,000 people and not much else except and a Husky truck stop with; 1) really nice staff, 2) and excellent selection of grab and go South Asian food, and 3) a really bad beef…
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The Great Canadian Road Trip – Hitting the prairies proper
Hello again friends. I am sorry I kind of ran away on you for a bit. There was just SO MUCH to see and SO MANY pictures to take to share with you all. I take my tour director responsibilities seriously. Sorry I wandered off with the “Sunflower on a stick” losing my group in…
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The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip – Starting East (Whitehorse to Alberta)
VIDEOS Hello all, Those of you who have been following along with the occasional individual photos and updates know I am well past the West in real time, but I get so busy adventuring that I don’t make the time to write about it. We can pick up where we left off, leaving Whitehorse headed…
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The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip – Southern Yukon, or Project Yukon Revisited (Dawson to Whitehorse and all points in between)
VIDEOS THE PLAY BY PLAY Well, we are back on the pavement, the car has been pressure washed, and we start our Eastward Journey, well South and East really. Back from Dawson to Whitehorse and then to spend some time exploring the Southern Yukon, or what I am calling Project Yukon revisited. Some of you…
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The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip – Cities and activities of the Dempster (Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk and camping at Tombstone Park)
VIDEOS THE PLAY BY PLAY So, now that you have a sense of actual roads and road trip part of our Northern adventure let’s chat about the places along the way (we are backtracking a bit as I realized I posted the Southern Yukon stories before I sent you all this. So push pause at…
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The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip – The Great Gravel Getaway (The Dempster Highway Drive)
VIDEOS THE PLAY BY PLAY OK folks, we survived! We are officially done the great gravel road leg of the trip (actually we finished it while ago but I have been busy readjusting to the pavement and heading East so this is a bit delayed). We made it back to Dawson after our Dempster, Inuvik…
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The Great Canadian 3X4 Roadtrip – Gettin’ Ready for the Gravel (Whitehorse to Dawson)
VIDEOS THE PLAY BY PLAY Dawson City here we come. Klondike bound (with a whole lot more comfortable gear than the original miners who came here in 1898!) . We left Whitehorse well provisioned with water, fuel, and food, twizzlers, turtle chips (thanks Kelly B, I have been rationing them), and moose buns. No, I…
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The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip – The Long Road Begins (Wells to Whitehorse)
VIDEOS THE PLAY BY PLAY Hello again friends! We have made it to Whitehorse! Hooray. After a fond farewell to the denizens of Wells I fueled up on one last espresso from the Sunset and baking from the Goldfields Bakery (meat pies and Eccles cakes beat the heck out of power bars for long drives!!),…
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The Great Canadian 3 X 4 Road Trip – away we go (Vancouver to Wells)
VIDEOS THE PLAY BY PLAY Greetings from Wells/Barkerville! As most of you know I am working on a web page for my trip but it is still under development so I thought I would get some posts up here on FB, and then I can move them to my blog when it is ready. I…