I'm in Okotoks at the moment, staying with a friend from my youth, Amber, and her husband, Peter. Their house is enormous, visually arresting, and full of some pretty amazing decor as well. I will take some shots tomorrow for everyone's visual edification, and also because it deserves to be documented for the trip. The day started out in Airdrie, fairly early, as the family needed to be out the door by 8 AM, so I woke up early again, got my morning coffee, and...

So today, I trekked off to Drumheller to see the Royal Tyrell museum, as well as horseshoe canyon, but before that, last night, I went out with James to see Rob's house and farm in Beiseker, meet his cat, meet the llamas, and get absoutely devoured in a way I have never been devoured before by mosquitoes. The cat was a little hostile, the Llamas were grazing and uninterested in any human contact, and the mosquitoes were, as aformentioned, hungry. The farm was n...

Nearing the 75% completion part of my trip, and I'm taking another day off today in Airdrie, since it's going to likely be my last period of respite before the "five days of hell" in which I need to drive, in order, 747km, 624km, 736km, 874 km, and 544km. Over five days I am going to drive a total of just under 3600 km, with at least one thing to do each evening, except in Sault St. Marie. Yesterday was Edmonton, and the only things anyone was able to tell me t...

So today was pretty amazing, scenery-wise. I know that many of my western-North America based friends will be jaded with mountains by now, and that the pictures I took today will mean little, but today was even better than yesterday, despite it being even more driving, for the second day in a row. I was a little bit pissed early on, because you need to pay to use highway 93, the Icefields Parkway. I was feeling a little smug and self-satisfied that I wasn't go...

So today, I drove for thirteen hours. I didn't WANT to drive for thirteen hours, but for some reason, my day arranged it so that I did. I left Surrey in the morning and then I drove on the trans-canada highway. This is literally what I did all day. There is no part of my day that could not be described as "I am currently driving on the trans-canada highway" except for the two stops for gas and snacks, and the one 13 km detour I took when I missed the turnoff ...