Category Archives: 2021 X Country Drive

Ontario: 23 hrs total, 2100 km Northern Ontario, which is the part of Ontario you enter when coming from Manitoba, makes up part of the Canadian Shield. Most of the roadways are blasted through exposed granite, but parts of the … Continue reading →

Wow, Manitoba. I almost left this post blank, which would sum up our MB drive pretty well. The province is 500 km across the south, or a 5 hour drive without stops. The first thing I noticed when we crossed … Continue reading →

Saskatchewan, potash capital of Canada, stretches 650 km and takes 6 1/2 hours to traverse. It is very beautiful, green, peaceful, flat, and monotonous as all get out. There are no overpasses for intersecting highways, presumably because that would take … Continue reading →

Southern Alberta is far more lovely than I expected. Heading east, it starts with the beautiful rolling foothills and, before long, transforms into the cavernous badlands. This is dinosaur country! Off in the distance are views of the Rockies, reminding … Continue reading →

We prepared quite a detailed plan on how we were going to drive from BC to our new home in Prince Edward County, Ontario. I also spent quite a long time worrying about how we were going to pack everything … Continue reading →