We had a bit of back and forth with Daniel over WhatsApp while we were at dinner tonight and I told him that we’ve had the one and only stupidly calamitous day of our entire trip today. Everything is great. We are alive and well and safe and happy to be coming home tomorrow. As …
We’ve done planes, a car, a ferry and bikes. It was time for a train. The train takes about the same amount of time to get to Wellington as driving. In fact, we often saw the same transport truck at several points where the highway and rail line ran side by side. Flying would have …
I suppose it was inevitable that we would have some sort of major problem along the way. When you are planning a 15,000 km trip, you know something is going to go haywire. We had the vehicle serviced in Calgary getting it ready for the trip, so we thought things were ready to go. Nevertheless, …
On our blog we have been showing you pictures and described some of the interesting activities we have had over the past month. While that has been fun, there is another side to RV living, I’ll call it simply “trailer life”. Trailer Life, as I have termed it, are the activities that happen at the …
The reason we have an small RV is so that we can have heat and a bed off the ground. We like going to the provincial and national camp grounds and are quite accepting of no-service sites. When we do have access to power, it is a luxury. The places we camp tend to have …
Southern Utah and Northern Arizona have been less than ideal. Skies have been grey and the wind has howled. Snow and cold weather have permeated the desert. Yet, we have been able to see some of the things we set out to. Our trip through Monument Valley was filled with spectacular colour. The bright red …
That’s our little RV between the two rather large units. I’ll concede that those folks are generally not travelling around the continent, but it does give some perspective on how Ken and I will be living until September, or so. Ken estimated our square footage to be 182 Sq Ft. We are tight, but warm, …