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1877 Sandgate Crescent

We are off and starting our epic journey

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198 Horseshoe Lake Rd, Parry Sound, ON P2A 2W8, Canada

Stopped by the road for a little roadside picnic !

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Gravenhurst

Roadside picnic.

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Trans-Canada Hwy, Ontario P0G, Canada

As we approach Parry Sound we can see and smell the forest fires. We’ve seen a number of helicopters filling up. \240This picture is from a news site \240not ours.

We’ve had off and on rain to start off the journey.

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Sudbury

The big nickel. http://sciencenorth.ca/dynamic-earth/exhibits/details/index.aspx?id=2976

We found the big nickel!

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Sault Ste. Marie

Arrived in Sault Ste Marie

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Wawa

Checking out the wawa goose. 900kms into the trip. We’ve seen some lovely scenery on the trip.

Very pretty scenery at a look out on out drive

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Hillside Acres Dr, Nipigon, ON P0T, Canada

Amazing bridge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge

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Thunder Bay

Celebrating day two of our epic journey with a Keg dinner after our A&W lunch this is a bit of a step up :)

Lookout

Nice look out that Laura took

The section between Thunder Bay and Kenora was particularly undeveloped. We had to be careful we had enough fuel between stops. And finding a place for lunch wasn’t happening so we ate a lunch of champions. Home made carrot muffins, kettle chips and home made brownies. Some of our last home baked goods. It’s been lovely having some of home along with us!!

Cell coverage on the trip had been spotty so using online navigation like Waze has been useless. So we resorted to Copilot. Fortunately we loaded up offline maps in case.

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Kakabeka Falls

Kakabeka Falls

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Kakabeka Falls

Wow https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/kakabekafalls

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakabeka_Falls

Our hike https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2892546183

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Rushing River Provincial Park - Northwest Campground

Checking out Rushing river provincial park. As it happens we were on the menu :( very hot challenging hike.

Our hike \240https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2893485231

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Kenora

Checked in Kenora for the night. We will wake up and have a short drive into Winnipeg and a visit with Laura’s friend Emma tomorrow.

As of today we cross 2K out of our 4K journey. We are all out of our baked goods... no muffins, cookies, brownies... Gasps. We might just need to throw someone out of their kitchen along the way... hehe. Just kidding, or are we?

1976 kms in and we’ve reached Manitoba!

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Winnipeg

We’ve arrived in Winnipeg

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2505 McGillivray Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3Y 1S9, Canada

Stopped by Fort Whyte

Our hike https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2895896400

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Winnipeg

Neat building

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Radisson Hotel Winnipeg Downtown

Driving in downtown Winnipeg is confusing lots of one ways bus ways etc but we made it without harming anyone :) thankfully a nice popo let me off with a warning for driving in the bus way :) doh. He saw the Ontario plates and took pity. I’ll take it.

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Trans-Canada Hwy, Fleming, SK S0G 1R0, Canada

Woohoo we just crossed over into Saskatchewan!! At 2517 kms of ~4000. Neat to watch all the gadgets automatically change as we cross time zones but it messes you up with arrival times on the navigation apps :(

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Trans-Canada Hwy, Virden, MB R0M 2C0, Canada

The roads through Manitoba are a lot more flat and straight so the speed limit it 110 instead of 90 allowing us to make good time. At 2460 km into the trip. \240

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Louis Riel Trail, Chamberlain, SK S0G 0R0, Canada

We have not left civilization after all ... I found my favourite cheesies :)

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Saskatoon

We’ve arrived in Saskatoon !! 3010kms local brewery.

A magpie was playing

Laura saw some lovely flowers. Some kind \240of daisies

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Range Rd 50, Islay, AB T0B 2J0, Canada

Crossed over the Alberta border on the way to Edmonton

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Elk Island National Park, Fort Saskatchewan, AB T8L 4B6, Canada

We just saw hail. Nutz.

Downtown Edmonton in the rain

We stopped off at Allegros tonight for dinner. Probably one of the best restaurants in a while. I had the veal and Laura had the salmon both were awesome. And they comd us a tirimasu that was amazing.

Checked out St Joseph’s Bassilica

Checked out Muttart conservatory unfortunately they did not allow pics. Some beautiful flowers.

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1323 170 Street Northwest, Edmonton, AB T5T 3J7, Canada

Checking out the west Edmonton mall.

An indoor water park wave pool

The indoor coaster is cool

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Peace River

We’ve arrived in Peace river and Laura has the keys to her first place. Very exciting.