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May 30, 2009 • Alyssa Schafer

Our Adventure Begins

Firsthand family travel story

May 30, Saturday 2009 DAY 1

We’ve started our adventure! I have been really excited for this trip, researching places to see, packing up, and getting our home and other things ready for the people taking care of our house.
We stayed longer than we had hoped at the house, doing last minute things, saying goodbye to everyone and we had to rush over to the library and return some books on CD.
Yesterday this guy from A channel news came and interviewed us and got some footage of us packing. He even got some close ups on the “Follow our Family of 8 for 17,000 km at FamilyAdventuring.com” t-shirts that I made and that we were all wearing for this thing. Luckily it was the one of my brother’s and not mine! It’s annoying though ’cause we weren’t able to watch it. We are going to get it from some of our friends though and dad wants to put it on YouTube and link it up to his business website, so we will probably see it soon.
Tomorrow we will be in a town called Craigellachie. It’s a small town, unlike it’s long name.

Canada RV route

Across Canada to the Atlantic

Explore the Canadian route from Victoria to Newfoundland and back to the U.S. border. Select a marker to see the story behind each stop and open its location in Google Maps.

  1. 1Victoria, British Columbia
  2. 2Lower Mainland, British Columbia
  3. 3Revelstoke, British Columbia
  4. 4Banff, Alberta
  5. 5Calgary, Alberta
  6. 6Drumheller, Alberta
  7. 7Edmonton, Alberta
  8. 8Battleford, Saskatchewan
  9. 9Regina & Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
  10. 10Winnipeg, Manitoba
  11. 11Thunder Bay, Ontario
  12. 12Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
  13. 13Parry Sound, Ontario
  14. 14Niagara Falls, Ontario
  15. 15Toronto, Ontario
  16. 16Upper Canada Village, Ontario
  17. 17Ottawa, Ontario
  18. 18Montreal, Quebec
  19. 19Quebec City, Quebec
  20. 20Baie-Sainte-Catherine & Saguenay, Quebec
  21. 21Fredericton, New Brunswick
  22. 22Prince Edward Island
  23. 23Halifax, Nova Scotia
  24. 24Louisbourg & Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
  25. 25Sydney, Nova Scotia
  26. 26Stephenville, Newfoundland
  27. 27St. John’s, Newfoundland
  28. 28Sydney, Nova Scotia
  29. 29Saint John, New Brunswick
  30. 30St. Stephen, New Brunswick

Lines show the main story sequence rather than an exact GPS track.

Return route

Home through the United States and western Canada

Follow the return from the New Brunswick border through the United States, then from Utah and Yellowstone back into Canada and home to Victoria.

  1. 1St. Stephen, New Brunswick
  2. 2Boston, Massachusetts
  3. 3Palmyra, New York
  4. 4Kirtland, Ohio
  5. 5Nauvoo, Illinois
  6. 6Independence, Missouri
  7. 7Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
  8. 8Alcova, Wyoming
  9. 9Salt Lake City, Utah
  10. 10Idaho Falls, Idaho
  11. 11Yellowstone National Park
  12. 12Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
  13. 13Pincher Creek, Alberta
  14. 14Crowsnest Pass, Alberta to British Columbia
  15. 15Cranbrook, British Columbia
  16. 16Ainsworth Hot Springs, British Columbia
  17. 17Nelson, British Columbia
  18. 18Osoyoos, British Columbia
  19. 19Hope, British Columbia
  20. 20Victoria, British Columbia

Lines follow the route in the original trip blog and distance summary. They show the travel sequence rather than an exact GPS track.