Category: Trans Canada Road Trip
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Burying Nostalgia in Ontario – Overlanding – Trans-Canada ’25 (III)
June 9th, 2025: Day Five Distance Traveled: 5.9KMDays in Hotel/Motel VS Campgrounds: 2/2 Thunder Bay, Ontario It’s 9am even though my laptop says 7am. I just went to Starbucks and was disappointed to only find a Canada mug and not a Thunder Bay mug. I have two choices before me right now. I can go Continue Reading
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Thunder Bay, Ontario – Road Trip Photography – Trans-Canada ’25 (II)
June 7th, 2025: Day Three Distance Traveled: Approx. 500KM Days in Hotel/Motel VS Campgrounds: 1/1 KOA Journey Campground (Outside Winnipeg, Manitoba) – Davy Lake Campground (Ignace, Ontario) I wanted to make it all the way to Thunder Bay today, but I got tired pretty quick. About halfway there I stopped in a campground in a Continue Reading
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Travel Photography Reflections and Preparations – Trans-Canada ’25 (I)
June 2nd 2025 (T-Minus 3 Days) Calgary, Alberta With just a few days to go things are starting to feel very real. I’m not as nervous as I think I should be. Maybe it’ll hit me all at once. Hopefully not like the rock to my windshield recently. This morning, I took a 3.5KM walk Continue Reading
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Minimalist Packing: 3 Essential Laws for Road Trip Success
When it comes to total weight on everything you’ve packed for a road trip it can be death by 1000 cuts. What seemed like a series of rational choices has now become an overstuffed and cumbersome set of bags. Each time I take a road trip I find myself regretting some of the things I’ve Continue Reading
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Navigating Unforeseen Challenges Before Your Road Trip
As of this post date, I am thirteen days out from leaving Calgary on my cross-Canada road trip. What an appropriate number for this topic. Dealing with setbacks or in other words rolling with the bad luck of planning for a road trip. While my experiences are pretty unique to me perhaps you’ll find some Continue Reading
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Why a Dress Rehearsal is Crucial for Your Trip
At the time of this writing, I am T-Minus thirty-nine days until I leave on a sixty-day road trip across Canada and back. From Calgary, Alberta to St. John’s, Newfoundland and so much in between. The road trip prep has been extensive. Going from zero to sixty as it were, is quite the leap. Especially Continue Reading
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Sixty Days Driving Across Canada 2025 Part One: Conception & Re-Conception
It is my goal to drive across Canada in 2025, and I’m going to document this journey here on my blog. Be sure and subscribe for updates. Where do I even begin? How do I give you the details that brought me here without boring the ever-living snot out of you? Let me touch on Continue Reading
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