tl;dr Pix and stories from my first road trip in roughly weekly installments.

Federal law dictates that those working in the bank industry take a minimum two consecutive week vacation from their institution. It's to get audited for embezzlement, not because bankers deserve the best, and not that I am a banker per se, let alone an embezzling one, though I do work at a bank.

Deciding to really embrace both the spirit and letter of the law by not being involved at all with work those two weeks, I decided to leave the country and check out some of the famed bike trails in British Columbia. Not that Canada is really outside the country, but nonetheless I had never done such a trip, alone no less, and was still getting acquainted with my relatively newly purchased WRX. I went 3000 miles round trip, and on Tein S-Techs if you can believe it.

I'll tell more stories of the trip as I recall and feel like it. I was planning to do a time lapse of the whole trip, but didn't think it through too thoroughly, and have only about a hour's worth of condensed driving from about Vallejo onward. It's tricky choosing the right intervals, and I imagine I'll have better luck next time.

Pictures are unfortunately sparse as my phone died mid trip, and they don't have Sprint in Canada, so waiting a few days for a cell to get shipped to Washington state was called for. I'll put up what I have, and have found fillers as done by others to bridge the holes.

Exhibit A, the lovely Sea-to-Sky Highway into Whistler, B.C., where I stayed first.

 

Nice! That is a great drive. I haven't been up there since they widened the road for the Olympics.

 

I now dream of racing down it one day haha. The trip was back in '12, and the games were what, '08 or '10, so it was pretty well broken in by the time I got on it.

Might not be til retirement, but I wana explore the rest of Canada by its roads. If I had had more time I'd have poked into the Northwest Territory while I was up there. Some je ne sais quoi appeal the great while north has for me.

 

Looks like santa cruz

 

Thereabouts, with things getting more Tahoe-y as they go, especially in Whistler.