Category: Travel
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Manitoba and lifelong friends
Continuing along Highway 1 from Saskatchewan we crossed the provincial border into Manitoba. This was a real milestone for Elizabeth as she had visited her close friend, Fiona, here when she was 18 years old and fallen in love with Canada and dreamed of returning. We headed North of Highway 1 towards our campsite at…
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Rocks, fossils and Hoodoos
Drumheller had been on our list of “must visit” places since the beginning of our trip. Drumheller is in an area of Canada known as the Badlands (which stretches East from Drumheller in Alberta to the Saskatchewan border and south to the United States) and is home to amazing rock formations and the largest deposits…
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Horses and Calgary
After leaving Banff we now began to head East along Highway 1, the Trans Canada Highway, through Alberta. Our first stop was at Rafter Six Ranch, a family run ranch offering rustic rv camping sites and trail rides. The campsite was rustic with stunning scenery all around us but boy was it windy! The first…
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Lakes and more lakes
We finished our drive of the Icefields Parkway and joined highway 1 and headed to Banff, just 40mins to go and we would be able to get to our campsite and set up after a very long day driving and sightseeing. However a Sinkhole in the middle of the highway had other ideas and we…
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Icefields Parkway
We left Jasper and headed Southeast on highway 93, better known as the Icefields Parkway. We had been told and read that this road from Jasper to Banff is spectacular; one of the most spectacular roads in the world to drive, with stunning mountain views, waterfalls and glaciers to see….of course the day we drove…
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Change of plans
After leaving Vancouver we had planned to visit the Okanagan for a week touring the vineyards and wine tasting and then on to Banff and Jasper (again), but sadly this was not meant to be. A wildfire raged through Kelowna destroying homes and livelihoods and we had to cancel our trip last minute as it…
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Prince of Whales
Before leaving the Vancouver area we planned to do a trip we couldn’t do the last time we were in town…..Whale watching! And WOW the ‘Prince of Whales’ tour company did not disappoint! We set off at 08:30 from Granville Island on a huge catamaran heading out into the Strait of Georgia (the Strait of…
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Fort Langley and a quick dash to the UK
Our drive from Whistler ended in Fort Langley, which is a small village community in the Township of Langley and is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In recent years, many of the village’s old buildings have been restored and new buildings have…
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Whistler and Sea to Sky Highway
We left the horse ranch behind and headed Northeast on highway 97c and at Cache Creek turned onto highway 99 (the beginning of the sea to sky highway, we were doing it in reverse) heading Southwest to Whistler. Wow what a road highway 99 is….the views are out of this world spectacular! However the road…
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Jasper
After driving down the Alaska Highway we were looking forward to a few nights in Jasper National Park and it didn’t disappoint! We crossed the provincial border from British Columbia into Alberta and jumped a time zone. The weather was iffy but our pitch at Whistler’s campground was perfect; we had fabulous views, fantastic neighbours…
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