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Over the past month, Radio 3 listener Sarah "Balls" Ball has been on an epic cross Canada road trip from her home in Newfoundland ever west to the shores of BC . She fittingly called her trek #chasingthesunet . She'll stop by the show today to let us know how it went ... and how she's going to get home .
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I haven't really had many roadtrips! I'm kind of person that doesn't travel that much sad to say and when I do it's only over short distances. Travelling these days (especially across international borders) makes me nervous. I know I should get over it.
Of the three road trips I've been on in my life, the most memorable one was last summer's trip to Winnipeg. This was my first "grown-up" roadtrip with my friends. I brought along some CDs and thus got my travel buddies addicted to The Good Lovelies and Portico. We visited "Golden Boy" at the Legislative building, and on the way home, we accidentally convinced some Michigan Denny's wait staff that Canada is nothing but mining towns and that we have no expressways.
was it the trip east from toronto to nova scotia via montreal? the one where we narrowly escaped being stuck in montreal due to a crack in the underground subway infrastructure that threatened the collapse of the downtown core?
perhaps it was the all-nighter from ottawa to toronto for arcade fire? or the yearly trips through the US to visit family? hours spent in a car either anticipating the reunion of loved ones, listening to great podcasts, or contemplating on what it all meant.
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We've planned an epic road trip from Houston to California, up to Vancouver and across Canada to SW Ontario (and probably back to Houston), but not sure when we are going to do it. It's supposed to take us 3 months, but some of our plans have changed, so it probably won't happen next spring like we had planned!
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In honour of Balls homeland, I'll share a tale of an epic adventure to the West coast of Newfoundland. discount kansas city hotels Some friends and I rented a minivan and loaded it with camping gear and provisions... then we hit the dusty trail. Getting there was unadventurous enough but the fun really began when we got to the island (as is the norm when you get to NFLD). Without getting really longwinded, the gist of the story is this: Hiking in Gros Morne National Park, Hanging out with Moose (photo op's), drinking sea water on a dare, partying with the entire town of Saint Anthony at their annual Thanksgiving shindig at one of the local hotels, Just about being blown away in our tents one night, sword fighting at L'anse aux Meadows viking place, getting standed in Port au Basques because of a hurricane which wouldn't let any ferries sail for two days, hanging out in Port Aux Basques with old friends and eating pizza smoking hookah and watching the '72 Summit discount kansas city hotels Series on DVD!!!
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Ahh, the road. I went on a cross-Canada roadtrip from July to November 2011 and it was the MOST amazing experience of life. I started in Ontario, drove to Newfoundland and then made my way alll the way back and ended up in Tofino, BC. My roadtrip was a whole indvidual project called 'Roadtrip with Reason'.......what an INCREDIBLE time.
My favorite road trip was last summer. Myself and my girlfriend drove from Montreal to Calgary. It took us 6 days and we camped discount kansas city hotels all along the way realized how big Ontario actually is and discovered why air conditioning can be a nice feature in a car as it was plus 30 and humid the whole way. The best part though was finally getting back to Calgary after a year of being apart and the two of us finally lived in the same city again.
- To Winnipeg with my two best friends last April. We almost got stuck in Manitoba... Not that that would be horrible, but we had to get back for work and other responsibilities. So thankful to the staff at Applebee's in Brandon. (And loweeda for allowing me to commiserate!! 3)
- Alllll around PEI with my cousin in 2007. I've only really been to the main suspects for me: North Rustico, discount kansas city hotels Ch'town, occasionally Summerside. That summer we went from one end to the other and I had a blast. 3 Including getting lost in a sweater.. well.. a place called Cardigan.
I love the notion of Road Trips, and will often daydream about them, almost daily But alas when you're a parent with a job, child, mortgage and bills to pay, you don't get to take them near as much as you'd like.
But, that is not to say my wife and I haven't traveled We waited to have our daughter to make sure we got to enjoy as much of the things we wanted to as a couple. We've been to Disney in Florida, NYC, Vancouver (and Vancoouver Island) 3 separate times, Halifax and Cape Breton, San Francisco to name the memorable, far trips.
It's such a highlight of my daughter's young existence that she often brings it up in conversations about summer. In fact the other day she told me she wished it was summer again so we could go camping on Wolfe Island again.
When we moved to Halifax, we crammed 4 girls and all our possessions we could, plus two keyboards, guitar and fiddle into a ford focus and drove very slowly from Kingston, ON all the way to Halifax via mtl.
The day before we left Rob Baker from the Tragically Hip was shopping at the store I worked at. I started chatting to him and told him about our imminent discount kansas city hotels journey and he wished me luck and told me to keep an eye out for this particular view coming through the eastern townships. discount kansas city hotels and we did! and it was beautiful! and we had two days of perfect driving conditions and open highway and I believe it was all because our journey was blessed by a Canadian rock God!
All time favourite road trip?I discount kansas city hotels don't have a single one favourite since I have a lot of really intresting ones, so I'll say the most recent (epic?) one. Since the spring I have been dating a woman who originally hails from Texas. Over the summer she was suprised at how well we travel together so when I half-joked about driving to see her family over Christmas she said 'Yes! Let's do that'. discount kansas city hotels We ended up driving to northern and southern ontario to see both of my parents, then down to Austin discount kansas city hotels to visit some old friends of hers, Houston to visit her parents friends, Alabama to visit more family, and finally S. Carloina for new years/visiting more of her friends. All in all I worked it out to be a bit over 7600km of driving between december 22 jan 2, positive feelings the whole way.I really hope it isn't too early for 2012 trips since I have already discount kansas city hotels been making plans for a few.
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