Our trip took us through 8 provinces (NS, NB, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC) and 9 states (WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, SD, MN, WI, MI) and we saw all 5 Great Lakes.
We travelled 9,658 miles (that's 15,543 km.) using 1094 gallons of fuel picked up in 58 stops and costing $4829.18.
We have been asked 'What was your favourite place?" and we have no answer. We thoroughly enjoyed it all. We spent time on the Acadian shore of NB, visited family in Ontario and in the very different geography of nothern Ontario, hiked in the badlands of Saskatchewan, drove through the plains of Manitoba and the mountains of Alberta, had a wonderful stay in British Columbia (wine and cherries in the Okanagan, then Stanley Park and Victoria) and followed all that up with Yellowstone National Park, Mt. Rushmore, the badlands of South Dakota, mountains (several ranges from the Cascades in Washington to the Rockies in Wyoming), a great RV rally and meeting up with old friends and making new ones in WY, hiked in the U.P of Michigan and visited friends in 'mainland' MI before returning to Canada to visit our kids who we don't see nearly enough in Niagara Falls where we biked along beautiful paths, and then visiting friends in the pretty Eastern Townships of Quebec - how can we choose just one?
However, I did discover that I could easily live in North Vancouver, or Vernon, or Niagara peninsula - but not in the prairies (landscape, while beautiful, is too desolate and houses too isolated), or the mountains (too cold and driving would be brutal in the winter). Some places are meant just to be visited!
We were so glad to have had the opportunity to see so much of our beautiful country! And even after all of that, we are happy to be home.
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