Driving Across Canada: How to Sleep in Your Car In the Depths of Winter (Part 4)
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Inspirations, Life Dream, Personal, Projects on 11. Jan, 2008 | Comments Off
Read part 1, 2, and 3 first, if you like!
I hate to gloss over Quebec because I loved it so, but our camera’s batteries kept dying at inopportune moments, and I wouldn’t have done the province justice anyway. It’s very culture-rich, the French are friendly, and they throw amazing free winter carnivals!
But by this time [...]
Driving Across Canada: How to Sleep in Your Car In the Depths of Winter (Part 3)
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Inspirations, Life Dream, Personal on 05. Jan, 2008 | 7 Comments
Read part one. Then read part two. You’re now reading part three!
We didn’t spend as much time in Manitoba as we could have, although we did take in some classic Winnipeg sights.
Manitoba quickly led to Ontario. And by this time we’d settled into a pleasant road-trip rhythm.
We’d wake up in a parking lot and locate [...]
Driving Across Canada: How to Sleep in Your Car In the Depths of Winter (Part 2)
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Inspirations, Life Dream, Personal on 01. Jan, 2008 | 8 Comments
We recently shared part one of our cross-Canada winter adventure. You’re now reading part two!
Once our bags were packed and we’d said goodbye to our families, our journey really began.
We set off on the first leg of our journey: crossing British Columbia in our 1982 Toyota Station wagon.
Oh, those heady first days of a road [...]
Driving Across Canada: How to Sleep in Your Car In the Depths of Winter (Part 1)
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in Inspirations, Life Dream, Personal, Projects on 17. Dec, 2007 | 15 Comments
In December of 2007, we drove 8,000 kilometres, from one end of Canada to the other. We were leaving our home-land, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and moving across Canada to Prince Edward Island. It took 28 days to get there, and we slept in our car every night along the way–in temperatures as low as [...]