We packed up this morning and it wasn’t raining! Windy though! It was a cold night but we were in the tent for about 12 hours and slept ok! The…
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Today it rained. All day.
When I booked two nights for us at Esker Lakes, I imagined us renting a canoe or a peddle boat and doing a hike or two. We eyed up the…
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Polar bears, and I’m back in Esker Lakes Provincial Park!
I don’t know what happened to all the rain bands on the radar last night, but every one of them missed us! We woke up to a dry tent! I…
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Geraldton, Hearst, Kapuskasing, and Moonbeam!
It POURED rain for a few hours before we got up this morning. We really had no intention of getting up at any sort of reasonable time. We were nice…
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Nissan, Jana, Beardmore, and almost in Geraldton!
We went to Nissan this morning to have my engine warning dash light investigated. And we left at noon with a newly installed purge valve! If you’ve never heard of…
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Thunder Bay!
Two days in one because I’ve taken almost no photos and time is short! We stopped at Kakabeka Falls on the way into town. Photos! Once in Thunder Bay, we…
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Ahhh! This seems BAD!!!?
We had a great sleep in the motel last night! We even got to watch an episode of Corner Gas and match up the buildings in scenes with the ones…
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Foggy, cloudy, but we saw the world’s largest pumpkin!
I was hoping for an iconic sunny day in Saskatchewan to take the backroads and take photographs of the crops and harvesting and straw bales. But it wasn’t to be….
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Coffee pot, Corner Gas, and a bloody laundromat
It wasn’t an early start today partly due to a long wait for our free breakfasts but we both slept good last night! This is a face of someone trying…
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Saskatoon!!
We decided to get a hotel in Saskatoon to get some laundry done and to wash up! I found a deal on a hotel near the airport with laundry, but…
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Coyotes and the world’s largest perogy
That was my worst sleep yet – last night in the abandoned baseball diamond in the ghost town. I probably shouldn’t have had a pop before bed. I had to…
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Ghost town – we’re sleeping in one!
That’s right. We are attempting to sleep in a ghost town tonight. And we are the only ones here! But first, the Rundle Chalet last night was fine. I slept…
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RAIN!
The rain was SO LOUD on the tent over night! Thunder and lightning too! This time the forecast was right, it was going to rain, and it did, for hours….
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Jasper National Park
Today’s goal was to get to Jasper, and we made it! Can’t believe I’ve driven us all the way to Jasper! We passed 3,000 km on the trip odometer today!…
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Alberta baby!!!
Our cushy hotel provided a free breakfast this morning! We didn’t drive too far today but just far enough. We are trying to book two nights ahead in this stretch…
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We weren’t eaten!
It poured for hours overnight. Which may have helped us sleep? I fell asleep early, when kids were still running around and screaming. But I was abruptly woken up in…
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Could we be any more scared!?
Our plan was to camp at the Liard Hot Springs campground tonight. Half the sites are first come first serve. We got up early (and in the rain) so we…
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Sky High Wilderness Ranch sled dog ride!
We were up early today for a 9am date with some sled dogs! As excited as we were, there was still a lot of staring at the rain falling on…
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Muskox baby, bus tour, and let’s put on the rain fly
It was a lovely night sleeping with the rain fly off. The top of this big tent, an MEC Funhouse 6 man, is all mesh so you can see the…
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Setting up camp TWICE in one day!
We knew we had about 8 hours of driving to do over a day and a half to get to Whitehorse and a site a reserved tomorrow night there. So…
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