A blog following my Cross Canadian extended road trip to visit all ten provinces in 2017 - the 150th year of the Confederation of our great country! Travelling with my Buick Encore AWD :)
Day 7: Edmonton, Alberta to Logan Lake, British Columbia
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My seventh day of purposeful driving across Canada :) It was a long driving day, over 11 hours with construction delays and sloooooooow rigs. Travelling through the National Parks was wonderful though and I have to say it worries me that there is still so much snow pack and the rivers and lakes are already so high... but maybe it will stay cooler and we won't need to worry until next year...
Day 7 in Numbers:
Km: 964
Hours driving: 11+
National Parks driven through: 4 (Banff, Yoho, Glacier and Mt Revelstoke)
Times zones crossed: 1 (gained another hour)
Animals seen: 1! (just a squirrel when I stopped in Lake Louise)
Aunties hugged: 2 :)
Day 7 Observations:
Raging rivers! High lakes! Busy National Parks and lots of tourists from the US and overseas. Sleeping in cool mountain air is soooooooo nice.
took the long way on a route I have never done before
Now the day in photos and videos!
A normal view....
Farm land...
Heading south towards Calgary
Into the foothills!
Lots of hitchhikers - never even thought of picking one up (don't worry1)
I finally made it to my parent's in Cold Lake, Alberta! This is NOT where we grew up (PArksville on Vancouver Island, the real West Coast), but my brother works in the oil fields so this is where they live now :) Day 5 by the numbers: Km travelled: 611 km Time travelled: Almost 7 hours (gravel roads do no let you drive very fast!) Wildlife see: 1 wolf running across the gravel "highway", Canadian geese, a pheasant (yes, I know what "eating" birds look like, elk (which got me excited until I saw 6 of them and realized it was an elk farm), a few hawks/falcons and cows and horses. Cost-Co pit stops: 1 in Saskatoon, also got gas and hot pickled green beans. Times a bit nervous: more than 1 as the numbered highway in Northern Saskatchewan was like a gravel road in the middle of no where!!! Observations: I have begun to like cruise control, which I always resisted. When you have a lead foot and open highways (and don't want a ticket) you really ...
After driving 3,500+ km across five provinces and lots of different terrain - and a couple months in Quebec where I drove more than the average - I decided to add a review of my car to the blog. My car cleaned and ready for the trip! All my time in the UAE I rented - for the most part a Honda Accord - which was fine and good on gas, but not what I wanted for Canada. I had rented a Trax and an Encore last summer and knew I liked them... and my Dad has been pushing for the Encore for a couple of years (he loves Buicks). So with the help of an awesome broker (email for his name if you live around Rosemere, QC) I got a 2017 Buick Encore AWD - the Premium edition (because I wanted the bigger engine and heated seats). So first what I LOVE 💗 The heated seats - really it was on my list of "musts" after so many years living in the desert I know I have turned into a wimp! Also the lumbar support is spectacular - I wasn't stiff at all after 5 days of long days of drivin...
So today was a "short" nine hour drive that felt longer.... Ontario is just so big!!!! But made it to Portage la Prairie, where my Mom was born! Too lazy to go into town this trip... but I have done a driveway of the house where she lived in a trip a few years ago.... Day 3 by the numbers: Km driven: 906 Hours on the road: 9 and a bit Provincial borders crossed: 1 (and boy was I happy to hit Manitoba with a decent speed limit and divided highways) Time zones crossed: 1 (and my car updated automatically - fancy!) Wildlife: Canadian geese, 1 partridge, passed a deer farm Tim Horton's visited: 1 Number of times cursed the snow: once, when I cleaned the car off in the bitter cold with no mittens, socks or boots Some observations: Ontarians drive slow, even below the speed limit. I find that weird. Manitoba drivers of a certain age do not understand that if you are not passing cars you should stay in the right hand lane. All men of a certain age hate b...
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