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We left Winnipeg Manitoba on June 19th at 10:30am and we arrived in Waterdown (Hamilton) Ontario on Joerg’s birthday (June 30th) at 10:30pm. Along the way we stayed at Walmarts, truck stops and campgrounds. We stayed at a nice campground in Kakabeka Falls just outside...

We took two days to get to Winnipeg with a stop at a truck stop in Moosomin just before the Manitoba Border.  The weather forecast was giving tornado warnings, but we could see that the storm was ahead of us and moving the other direction.  We enjoyed dinner at the...

In our last week, we were treated to a private tour of the University of Saskatoon by Lea. She is now retired from the university after working there 25-30 years so she knew exactly which buildings and history to show. I loved how many of the buildings had an...

We arrived is Saskatoon on May 14th, settled in and relaxed. We have been here three weeks now and boy has the time gone by fast. It has been wonderful watching spring arrive, the trees getting their leaves and now the lilacs are smelling as beautiful as they always...

We were on the road from Jasper by 9:30am but not before filling up only 75 litres of gas to get us out of the tourist area and save 10 cents per litre a couple hours down the road. The drive to Edmonton was uneventful, well except for missing the turnoff to the...

We arrived in Jasper around 12:30pm. The drive from Clearwater to Jasper was nice, but there were a lot of low laying clouds, so we didn’t see very many mountaintops. We checked in, settled in and took the car off the dolly (first time since we left Nanaimo). We are...

We loaded up the dolly and set off on the morning of May 1st from Nanaimo to catch the ferry and eventually end our day at Hope BC. The ferry was very easy, very organized. It turns out we are 53 feet in total length with our car in tow so that is a whopping $300 one...