Shirley and Joe's Great Canadian Adventure

Our next destination is a place called Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park which is 20 kms south of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. We left Calgary around 11:00 a.m. but by the time we got gas and got out of the city it was more like 12:00.  We didn’t mind because it was only a 4.5 hour drive, easy peasy...or so we thought. The drive to Maple Creek was beautiful. I understand why its called Big Sky country. You can just see for miles and mile. Gorgeous rolling hills, with various livestock and crops dotted along the highway. I know some people might wonder why we are sticking to the trans Canada highway because it would probably be nicer on the secondary roads, but we are on a bit of a schedule to get to Ontario no later than June 2nd without having to drive 12 hours a day. I should mention a couple of things we have done to enhance the hours in the truck. I signed up for Spotify premium in order to download playlists instead of listening to radio with spotty reception. And I also s...

The planning of this trip started in June of 2017. Joe came home from his job of 35 years and said, "I'm done, lets sell the house, retire and get on the road while we are still healthy enough to do it" I think I had already packed our first box by the time he finished his sentence. To be honest, we have been thinking about doing this trip across Canada for a few years now, but there always seemed to be another destination calling. In fact, unless we up and sold everything and just became vagabonds, I don't think we will ever manage to see all the places on the list.  For every 1 destination we get to, we add another 3 places to the list. The first thing we had to do was to figure out what kind of vehicle we wanted to travel in. Camper van, motorhome, truck and trailer, convertible BMW, or just a broken down VW van.  We settled on the truck and trailer. Joe is used to driving a big truck so that is what he was most comfortable with. Next decision was how big t...