My Solo Trip to Canada and Back, eh?
04-19-2014, 07:00 PM
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My Solo Trip to Canada and Back, eh?
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.
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.
04-19-2014, 07:29 PM
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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.
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