1431 Crossing Canada I

And in order to reduce the number of days of driving we, or rather I did what we called night driving. It is not really legal and probably not really save either, but we put the kids after supper up in the parents bedroom to sleep and went on driving for several more hours. Then we stopped just any sort of rest area to sleep untill the morning and get on the road again. Does not sound like an awful lot of fun but we managed to get through the plains k̐
... and for supper all got dressed properly again. The driving was not easy for the children. But through a combination of children stories on MP3, Kate reading to them, sewing, knitting, stitching and homework we managed to keep some level of enthousiasm for continuing the trip.
We had a last day along the lakes before we hit the plains. Going below Lake Superior was very beautiful landscape, but not much excitement other than the first strip of 10 miles of road without the slightest bend (!!!) and driving for 30 miles on the wrong road before noticing. The kids enjoyed every bit of water they could (... I know, I know we might be prosecuted for child pornography with these pictures, but its them who wanted to have it on the site...)
We hoped to get across the roughly 4000 km in 5 days - quite a challenge with our campervan. We set off from Niagara to pass Torronto (additional shopping trips!) and to get to Lake Huron. An hour after leaving Torronto we started to get our first impressions of the endless forests of Canada. The second day of crossing basically was spend driving along the North shore of Lake Huron back to the US border in Sault St.-Marie. Lots of road works, mosquito count increasing and trees, trees, trees. But the lake was nevertheless very pretty and we found a campsite just at the beach.
The great crossing: Niagara to the Canadian Rockies We had planned to not really spend much time on the East cost but to cross as quickly as possible the American continent to get to the Rockies, and if possible to move up to Alaska. Our attempts on finding out about the best way to cross Canada were not very successful. Almost none of our many Canadian friends had ever gone on this venture - and apparently for good reasons. The plains between the Great Lakes and the Rockies don’t really offer tremendous sight seeing opportunities.
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Those plains are quite something: fields as far as the eye reaches - and that for 1500 km. We kept our course and crossed the border to Canada again before we reached Calgary and finally we saw for the first time the Rockies!!!
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... and for supper all got dressed properly again.

The driving was not easy for the children. But through a combination of children stories on MP3, Kate reading to them, sewing, knitting, stitching and homework we managed to keep some level of enthousiasm for continuing the trip.

We had a last day along the lakes before we hit the plains. Going below Lake Superior was very beautiful landscape, but not much excitement other than the first strip of 10 miles of road without the slightest bend (!!!) and driving for 30 miles on the wrong road before noticing. The kids enjoyed every bit of water they could (... I know, I know we might be prosecuted for child pornography with these pictures, but its them who wanted to have it on the site...)

We hoped to get across the roughly 4000 km in 5 days - quite a challenge with our campervan. We set off from Niagara to pass Torronto (additional shopping trips!) and to get to Lake Huron. An hour after leaving Torronto we started to get our first impressions of the endless forests of Canada.

The second day of crossing basically was spend driving along the North shore of Lake Huron back to the US border in Sault St.-Marie. Lots of road works, mosquito count increasing and trees, trees, trees. But the lake was nevertheless very pretty and we found a campsite just at the beach.

The great crossing:
Niagara to the Canadian Rockies

We had planned to not really spend much time on the East cost but to cross as quickly as possible the American continent to get to the Rockies, and if possible to move up to Alaska. Our attempts on finding out about the best way to cross Canada were not very successful. Almost none of our many Canadian friends had ever gone on this venture - and apparently for good reasons. The plains between the Great Lakes and the Rockies don’t really offer tremendous sight seeing opportunities.

Those plains are quite something: fields as far as the eye reaches - and that for 1500 km. We kept our course and crossed the border to Canada again before we reached Calgary and finally we saw for the first time the Rockies!!!