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July 19 – fort resolution Fort Resolution is a Metis community on the south end of Great Slave Lake. It is on Highway 6 and is 150 kilometers from Hay River. First located at the mouth of the Slave River, Fort Resolution (population 499), is the oldest continuously occupied modern settlement in the NWT. It […]

Highway 1, Northwest Territories When we crossed the 60th Parallel at the NWT border, we left the Alberta road system and entered a new highway system for the Northwest Territories. Thus begins Highway 1. The section of Highway 1 between the Alberta border and Enterprise has been designated the NWT Highway of Heroes, in honor

Day 4: The Deh Cho Route: Valleyview, Alta – High Level, Alta This route connects Alberta’s Highway 35 with the Mackenzie Highway in the NWT. We came up Highway 43N, then turned onto 35N. When we reached the intersection where we were supposed to turn left to go into Grimshaw, where we would officially start

After much back and forth with Vance and Randy about the route north, we have decided to change our route. We were going to take Hwy 40 from Hinton to Grande Prairie/Peace River, but the road is full of ‘wavy parts’ where the trailer would be bounced around, causing it to be hard to control.

The Trip from Valemount to Hixon today went rather smoothly. It’s always a spectacular sight when you cross the bridge at Tete Jaune and out jumps Mt. Robson. One of the most beautiful drives I have been on is through the Rocky Mountains from Tete Jaune, BC, to Hinton, Alberta. It seems that every time

This blog is about our trip, by truck and travel trailer from Kamloops, B.C. through northern Alberta to the Northwest Territories, up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon, and hopefully to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk. We left Kamloops at high noon, Sunday, July 7. (Happy Birthday Kayl, Nana & Papa are off to the

July 14, 2019 – Reykjavik Our flight from Helsinki, with a quick stop in Stockholm, was uneventful. Iceland’s main airport is Keflavik, located an hour south of Reykjavik, the capital, where we will spend our three days before heading back to our home in Canada. It’s a modern airport, but not particularly busy. It’s located

July 11, 2019 – Helskinki The travel gods appear to be with us today. Our Yandex trip to the train station was uneventful, the train was on time, the trip was quick and very comfortable, and the public transit to our apartment was mildly bewildering but completely successful! We did not intend to visit Finland

July 10, 2015 – The Peterhof. This is our last full day in St. Petersburg, and we’re going to spend it at the Peterhof. We’ve opted to go to-and-from by high-speed catamaran along the Baltic, so we don’t have to waste time getting in and out of the city, and we have booked a tour

July 9, 2015 – The Hermitage. The Hermitage! We’re tremendously excited to be visiting one of the premier art museums on the planet. We have a tour booked with the ‘Skip The Line’ people, and our group is nice and cosy with just the six of us. After a leisurely breakfast in the apartment, it’s