Today we decided to hit up a few more places that Travis remembered (or thought he did) from the last time he was in Banff. The first place we stopped was Lake Louise, which had the turquoise waters of yesterday’s Lake Minnewonka, but the mountains in the background had glaciers on them! We [...]

Today was Banff exploration day #1. This is probably more of a photo dump than anything else, since I don’t really have anything to say for today other than we walked a lot. We started out by going to Lake Minnewonka, which is the largest lake in Banff (although I believe it is [...]

When I first found out we were going to northern Canada one of my main desires was to see some auroras. My sister linked me to an Aurora Watch website which shows updated views of aurora activity. I watched this website religiously when we were headed up to Prince Rupert, since that was [...]

After spending a few days in Calgary, we are finally back to our actual driving and road trip wanderings. Today we made the journey from Calgary to Banff, which was a fairly short drive (~80 miles). Banff National Park is Canada’s oldest national park, established in 1885 — it’s located in the Canadian [...]

Most of the places we’ve visited on our road trip are places neither one of us have been before, but every once in awhile we revisit a place to reminisce. I got to visit my old home of 8 years in Massachusetts, and we had fun tracking down my dad’s old house in Mississippi, [...]

Time to restart blogging! The past week and a half has been a vacation (from vacation) for me, and a lot of driving for Travis. I flew home to Orange County on the 8th for a job interview (which I didn’t get) and spent time catching up with friends and family. Travis [...]

Travis has been doing some work up in northern British Columbia, but we still had time to explore Prince Rupert. Our ferry arrived Sunday night, and after our initial hotel fiascoes we settled in fairly comfortably.
One of the things we did was visit the North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward. It is the [...]

Sunday we woke up at the impossibly early hour of 5am to check-out and drive to the ferry dock. They request you arrive 1.5 - 2 hours before the 7:30am launch, so we got there promptly at 5:30am only to be greeted by a 40 minute line of cars to check in. Unlike [...]

Today we drove Vancouver Island south to north, Victoria to Port Hardy. We decided not to partake in any random tourist activities, since the two things that were most appealing were more gardens or bear tours — we went to the best garden yesterday, and any bear tours would have likely been pretty expensive. [...]

Today we started our journey towards northern Canada, starting with a short ferry ride to Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island. Tomorrow we will drive to Port Hardy, BC (the north end of the island), and then Sunday we’ll take a 15 hour ferry ride to Prince Rupert, BC. I’m excited for the long [...]