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Prince Edward county: Wine and sand… Oh my!

By tony.barb.fisher September 14, 2022Travel

For our second trip to Prince Edward County this year, we teamed up with our friends Dean & Cathy to spend a week relaxing at Sandbanks River Country Campground. We chose to take the week immediately after the Labour Day weekend in the hopes that it would be quiet, we…

Mid-week excursion to Charleston Lake

By tony.barb.fisher August 26, 2022Travel

Our grand-daughter, Elena, is staying with us for the week and so we thought a quick two day camping get away would be a nice break. However, Mother Nature decided to make the start of our journey a little challenging by delivering a deluge of rain just before we were…

A short trip away…

By tony.barb.fisher August 4, 2022Travel

Late July and we’re off again, this time for a short two-night stay at Farran Campground on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The campgrounds along the St. Lawrence river are fairly close to home being less than an hours drive door to site. As this was a mid-week get away, we…

July 21, 2022 – Recap and Statistics

By tony.barb.fisher July 21, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Three weeks, yes it’s been that long since we arrived home after our 42 day cross-continent tour. A few friends have asked for some specifics about the trip and so we provide the following for your consideration. The first question tends to be about where we stayed each night. Did…

Day 42: June 30 – Deep River, ON to Home

By tony.barb.fisher June 30, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Good morning. Slept in today as it will be a short drive home from Driftwood Provincial Park. Had time to cook eggs, bacon & hash-browns and enjoy them outside…. Yes, the weather has finally cooperated to allow us to do this. Last breakfast on the road for this trip This…

Day 41: June 29 – Timmins, ON to Deep River, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 29, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Today we shall complete our Hwy-11 journey and join Hwy-17 at North Bay for the journey down the Ottawa Valley. We pass through Earlton and wave at ‘Earl’ the bison on the way past. We stop for lunch at a quiet rest area a little North of North Bay and…

Day 40: June 28 – Geraldton, ON to Timmins, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 28, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Although last nights weather forecast was only for light showers, we actually had an all out thunderstorm for about an hours or so around midnight followed by light rain the remainder of the night. By this morning the rain had ended. Yay. We traveled East for a few hours through…

Day 39: June 27 – Dryden, ON to Geraldton, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 27, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Aaron Provincial Park was wonderful. Quiet and quite large sites. If you’re driving past it’s worth a stop for the night. We highly recommend. Slow start to the day it seems as we didn’t get rolling until about 10:00am. Today we are targeting Geraldton, ON along Hwy-11 from Thunder Bay.…

Day 38: June 26 – Portage la Prairie, MB to Dryden, ON

By tony.barb.fisher June 26, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

After a great nights sleep at the Walmart, we headed to Tim Horton’s for breakfast. Disappointment awaited. Barb’s breakfast sandwich had eggshells in it and my Bagel BELT arrived without L or T. 😒 We made a quick stop at the White Horse monument just West of Winnipeg as we…

Day 37: June 25 – Lloydminster, AB to Portage la Prairie, MB

By tony.barb.fisher June 25, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Early start to the day as we head East out of Lloydminster and immediately into Saskatchewan. The border actually splits the town into two and as we depart we both commented on our observation that most of the recent commercial development had occurred on the Alberta side of town leaving…

Day 36: June 24 – Jasper National Park, AB to Lloydminster, AB

By tony.barb.fisher June 24, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

That was a cold night. We have recently slept easily through a few cooler nights without turning on the furnace and so thought last night would be the same. Nope, something about last night made the 5C feel colder than it was. Should have turned on the furnace or put…

Day 35: June 23 – Yoho National Park, BC to Jasper National Park, AB

By tony.barb.fisher June 23, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Today will not be what we expect. Although we slept really well and neither of us heard any trains overnight, the day would bring just a few surprises. We started off with our usual morning preparations and then because the driving would only consist of about 3 hours, we thought…

Day 34: June 22 – Tappen, BC to Yoho National Park, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 22, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

After a restful night at the winery, we enjoyed a quiet breakfast and headed out. Destination today, Yoho National park. Our first stop was in Revelstoke where we enjoyed a Tim Horton’s bagel BELT and coffee before filling up with fuel. Starting to reacclimatize ourselves to CDN prices for fuel,…

Day 33: June 21 – Galiano Island, BC to Tappen, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 21, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

We have booked travel on the 8:25am ferry to Tsawwassen as our drive is looking to be about 5 1/2 hours for the day. This meant an early rise so that we can load the bikes, enjoy a quick breakfast and say our goodbyes before leaving for the ferry terminal…

Days 26 – 32: June 14 to 20 – Galiano Island, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 20, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

We spent 7 days relaxing on Galiano Island while visiting Tony’s parents. Rather than detail each day we’ve included a few of our favorite photos from this week below. Activities included walking, cycling and reading. Enjoy, we most certainly did. ‘Campsite’ Rex Retreat cove at low tide Tony & Barb…

Day 25: June 13 – Tsawwassen, BC to Galiano Island, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 13, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

7:00am and we’re awake. The ferry isn’t until 10:25am but we want to be in line early to ensure we don’t get bumped. BC Ferries in the Summer are almost always full and reservations, even mid-week are a must. We arrive at the terminal by before 8:30am and are at…

Day 24: June 12 – Abbotsford, BC to Tsawwassen, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 12, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

We slept until 9:00am, that was a treat and a testament to how quiet our location is. As a treat, we headed to Tim Horton’s for breakfast and a coffee where we made plans for the day. Today has been set aside for reprovisioning before we head to Galiano Island…

Day 23: June 11 – Lynden, WA to Abbotsford, BC

By tony.barb.fisher June 11, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Knowing we only have about 20km to drive for our stay tonight, we got to sleep-in and take our time getting ready today. The campground here is very picturesque; however, the neighbors didn’t seem to have volume control of their voices and so that spoiled the site a little. We…

Day 22: June 10 – Port Angeles, WA to Lynden, WA

By tony.barb.fisher June 10, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Today we awoke early as we were heading around Puget Sound to our last overnight stop in the USA, Lynden, WA which is just South of Abbotsford, BC our destination for the next day. These is a way from Port Angeles to Bellingham using ferries; however, we found that these…

Day 21: June 9 – Fort Stevens State Park, OR to Port Angeles, WA

By tony.barb.fisher June 9, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Today we packed up our campsite and headed toward the Northern shore of the state of Washington. We would drive around Olympic National forest in which is Mount Olympia; however, the weather would not give us a chance to see the mountain as it started raining shortly after we left…