It was very windy at our campground on Lake Superior. But we couldn’t complain. The campsite just up the road was covered in snow. We had trouble finding the nickel in Sudbury. “I remember it […]

PEI is tidy. There are roads to everywhere. The homes are immaculate and beautifully maintained. But we kept running into the same problem, over and over. Campgrounds, closed. The fish tee shirt factory, closed. The […]

After we debarked from the ferry from Newfoundland, our first stop was to find a quiet green spot for Capi. Our second stop was at a campground. It was busy, full of RVs and had […]

Newfoundland is windy. We got off the ferry at Porte Hawke and turned north to L’Anse aux Meadows. This is the place where the Vikings set up a base in North America. The land is […]

I love Labrador. I love the flag. Most of all I love the colour. There are miles and miles of dark trees and light green trees and golden trees, with burgundy and bright red shrubs. […]

We traveled through Quebec at a reasonable speed, stopping at mediocre but clean motels and fascinating campsites, but, for some reason we didn’t take pictures. Maybe we were too busy embarrasing ourselves with our high […]

We left home like we were running away at short notice. In fact we had been planning the trip for some time. Planning consisted of saying we might do it, but we hadn’t even talked […]

We didn’t see cattle until we got to Houston. Houston, B.C. that is. There are no fences up north. No livestock. Unlike South America, where the fences and herds of domestic animals are ubiquitous, we […]

Driving the Dempster Highway back from Inuvik to Dawson City was uneventful. The road was bad but not extraordinarily so. We spent a night along the way in the campground at Eagle Plains, as the […]

In Inuvik, the priority was a trip to the car wash to reduce the load of mud on the truck. We managed to find a cabin at the Arctic Chalet. The owners keep sled dogs, […]