Visiting Five Parks in Twenty-One Days

Five Parks

Logistics: Travel around Ontario

Vehicle: 1994 F350 RC LB SRW 4x4 7.3l diesel with 1988 Maple Leaf Camper

Days: 21

Dates: September

Activities: Overlanding, canoeing, hiking, photography

Distance: 4500 kms (est.)

Photography: Old, poor quality, scanned images ... sorry!
Canadian Provincial Parks: Killarney, Sleeping Giant, Algonquin, Lake Superior
Canadian National Park: Bruce Peninsula

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We travelled around the province and camped, biked, hiked and paddled. We have pictures taken at Killarney Provincial Park along the Bruce Trial in the Bruce Peninsula NP and Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Mom and Dad O'Kane were staying at the Blue Spruce in Dwight and we stopped in and visited with them for a night on our way home.

Touring The Atlantic Provinces

Logistics: Kinburn, ON > then East through ON NY VT NH MA NB NS NL QC PE

Vehicle: 1994 F350 RC LB SRW 4x4 7.3l diesel with 1988 Maple Leaf Camper

Travelling Companions: Mae & Earl in a Volkswagen Van
Days: 35

Dates: August - September

Activities: Overlanding, canoeing, hiking, photography

Distance: 6000 kms (est.)

Photography: Old, poor quality, scanned images ... sorry!
CANADA National Parks: Gros Morne NP
UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Red Bay, Gros Morne NP

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Event: 22nd Wedding Anniversary

Mid-August, we were packed and departing for points East. Our 1994 Ford was loaded with camper, canoe, food and wine. Mae & Earl loaded up their VW Van, once again assuming it still had many more kilometres to go. We plan on about a 5 week trip. We decided to travel through the USA on the trip out and return home through Quebec. The trip resulted in more ferry crossings than we had done before, a visit to L'Anse aux Meadows ( the oldest known Viking settlement in NA), hiking trips into Gros Morne NP, a stop at Cape Spears (NA's most easterly point of land), one inland and one coastal boat tour, A Farley Mowat sighting during a ferry crossing and our most amazing wildlife sighting ever ... 30,000 nesting pairs of Northern Gannets at Cape St. Mary's ... and one Moose.

Photography

SECOND Road Trip NORTH of 60

Ontario to Alaska and Places In Between

Logistics: Kinburn, ON > in a north-westerly direction into ON MB SA AB BC NT YT AK

Vehicle: 1994 F350 RC LB SRW 4x4 7.3l diesel with 1988 Maple Leaf Camper

Travelling Companions: Mae & Earl in a Volkswagen Van
Days: 56

Dates: July - September

Activities: Overlanding, canoeing, hiking, fishing, photography

Distance: 16000 kms (est.)

Photography: Old, poor quality, scanned images ... sorry!

Post Description: This happened too long ago and I can't remember the details. Read the photo captions, the story is in the photography and it's 'mostly chronological'.
Designation: World Heritage Site
Event: 20th Wedding Anniversary

                     

Mid-July saw us packed up in our brand new 1994 Ford F350. Our new to us, 'used' truck camper was loaded up with food, wine, clothes, firewood and our canoe. Mae & Earl had loaded their VW van and together, the four of us set out on our first trip north 'by vehicle'. We were delayed briefly by the first of three flat tires that M&E would have. Earl had convinced himself that his tires would last until Edmonton ... they didn't. The adventure has begun.

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A California Business Trip

Helen & Lianne Get Away

Helen had to attend a conference in Anaheim, California - Lianne tagged along. The weekends were spent travelling along the Pacific Coast Highway to San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, then to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Photography

BARBADOS: Our FIRST Caribbean Country

Dates: May 01 - 07

Days: 7

Activities: Fishing, snorkelling, cultural
Photography: Old, poor quality, scanned images ... sorry!

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FIRST Road Trip NORTH of 60

Logistics: Dunrobin, ON > flight to Whitehorse, YT 
Vehicle: Rental Ford F250 4x4 with a Maple Leaf Camper
Travelling Companions: Mae & Earl in a Volkswagen Van
Dates: 3 weeks in August / September
Activities: Overlanding, hiking, fishing, photography
Distance: 3000 kms (est.)
Photography: Old, poor quality, scanned images ... sorry!
Post Description: This happened too long ago and I can't remember the details. Read the photo captions, the story is in the photography and it's 'mostly chronological'.
Event: 14th Wedding Anniversary

Helen and I had always wanted to travel to the Canadian North, so when Mae & Earl suggested that we join them on a road trip they would be embarking on we couldn't resist. It was a short trip, we saw a lot in 3 weeks and it set the stage for several return trips and a life-long fascination with this part of our country.

Photography

HoneymOOners : Our FIRST Road Trip

FORTY-ONE Years Ago ... 

While watching some cooking competitions on TV last evening, we were reminded of how young and stupid we once were. Of course, the jury is out on whether we are still stupid or not, but we are definitely no longer young. One of the contestants on the show was asked what they would do if they won the $10,000 prize and their response was "take my new wife on a honeymoon". Crusty & I looked at each other and laughed. Wouldn't that have been nice to have $10,000 for a Honeymoon! We were immediately reminded of our so-called honeymoon and our very first road trip, taken almost 41 years ago.

Four Seasons As A Canoe Ranger: Algonquin PP, ON

Four Seasons As A Canoe Ranger

I spent 4 seasons employed as an Algonquin Park Canoe Ranger with the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario from 1971 - 1974.