We said a sad goodbye to the beautiful city of Vancouver, but our hearts were brimming with excitement as we were heading East to the Canadian Rockies for the adventure of a lifetime.
Now we were amped to camp (as per Canada Diary Part 2) and decided to take the scenic route to Jasper and split the journey into 2 days, with one “practice camping session” along the way.Continue reading…
After an exhilaratingly exciting and exhausting series of airplane flights, we arrived safely in Vancouver. Continue reading…
With only 3 weeks to go before our family departs South Africa to travel on a cross global blogging adventure to Canada, we have been busy little bees sorting out all the technicalities of taking a family of 5 halfway across the world.
Never mind climbing the Rockies, ploughing through this mountain of red tape makes Mount Robson look like a molehill. Here are 5 things that are enough to put anyone off doing an international family trip:
So now that we are amped to camp in Canada, we have had to knuckle down and decide exactly where we will be spending our five weeks. Although we would have preferred to take each day as it comes and move where and when we feel like, we are hitting Canada in peak summer season, when tens of thousands of Canadians and Americans all diverge on British Columbia, booking everything up way in advance and forcing us transcontinental gypsies to pre-plan to ensure we get to stay at the best locations.
Here is what we have planned so far:
So, we now have 5 air-tickets to Vancouver for 5 weeks, in 5 months time. Sounds kinda cool. Not quite our initial big dream of RV’ing around the USA and Canada for a year, but not nothing either. We are living our dream, making it happen, grabbing life by the horns.
Well, that was the theory anyway when I withdrew our savings and splurged on the air-tickets. Now comes the part when we decide what to do in the 5 weeks. Continue reading…
