"My bags are packed, I'm ready to go..."
OK, not quite. Our van stuffed to the grill (ha ha. See what I did there?), but we're still doing a load of laundry and dishes -- good old parenthood. We begin our "Canadian Odyssey" tomorrow morning after we feed Buck and take a few last pictures.
I have downloaded the entire 20 hours of the fourth Harry Potter novel (Goblet of Fire) to hear on the trip. I spent a summer (a few years back, thank you E) reading all of the HP books and got a little tired by the 4th book. I decided that I was sick of Harry Potter by that point, so I didn't really pay attention as I finished 4 & 5 (no 6 back then).
Poor RKZ, he is going to do penance for my lack of interest. I am amazed that the book is 20 hours of audio. RKZ is irritated. He hasn't really "caught the HP fever" as it were. Muggle -- through and through. The trip will be 40 hours long -- at least -- so he can find something to fill up the last 20 hours. That is, if we haven't been forced to sit through 35 hours of baby videos and CD's. But I do think we have that many. "Can we build it? Yes we can!"; "Doo doo doo doo - Elmo's world" (Dante's third rung, I'm tellin' ya).
Our entertainment might be up in the air, but our itinerary is focused. We're using the Trans-Canada Highway and a nifty, very spefic website of similar name:
transcanadahighway.com/index.htm
We found it funny that its much faster to drive to Calgary through the United States, but RKZ and I reasoned that we've already seen a lot of the States we'd need to drive through -- and we've never driven across Canada (nor shall we again, most likely). It should take us about 5 days of driving if we drive around 8 hours/day. With Buck along, we'll need to stop about every 2 hours for a crawl/potty/sanity/hey-I'm-only-one break. It will give us a chance to see a little Canadian scenery as well. I'll try to have pictures that do not only feature parks & fast food restaraunt play areas.
I will briefly list where we're headed on tomorrow's leg of the journey (Day 1 of TCH):
Toronto (Etobicoke)
Parry Sound
Sudbury
Sault St. Marie
It will take us 2 days to get out of Ontario -- and we're so excited to see the beautiful area around the Great Lakes. It will be a mini vacation if Buck is agreeable. We've turned his car seat to face forward (a perk of being 1 year), so he will be able to see what we see - or to see a video if he's acting a bit cranky. I have to say that the video-watching should be quite a bonus for all of us.
On a "posting" note, I'll be changing the Titles of the posts as we travel. No songs, just -- Day ___ of TCH (Trans-Canada Highway). I'm sure that's pretty basic.
Finally, we said good-bye to our new close friends here and even spent a few minutes having espresso with our Italian next door neighbor. I cried a few times. It's hard to leave, but we're excited to be out West again.
Talk to you tomorrow!
I have downloaded the entire 20 hours of the fourth Harry Potter novel (Goblet of Fire) to hear on the trip. I spent a summer (a few years back, thank you E) reading all of the HP books and got a little tired by the 4th book. I decided that I was sick of Harry Potter by that point, so I didn't really pay attention as I finished 4 & 5 (no 6 back then).
Poor RKZ, he is going to do penance for my lack of interest. I am amazed that the book is 20 hours of audio. RKZ is irritated. He hasn't really "caught the HP fever" as it were. Muggle -- through and through. The trip will be 40 hours long -- at least -- so he can find something to fill up the last 20 hours. That is, if we haven't been forced to sit through 35 hours of baby videos and CD's. But I do think we have that many. "Can we build it? Yes we can!"; "Doo doo doo doo - Elmo's world" (Dante's third rung, I'm tellin' ya).
Our entertainment might be up in the air, but our itinerary is focused. We're using the Trans-Canada Highway and a nifty, very spefic website of similar name:
transcanadahighway.com/index.htm
We found it funny that its much faster to drive to Calgary through the United States, but RKZ and I reasoned that we've already seen a lot of the States we'd need to drive through -- and we've never driven across Canada (nor shall we again, most likely). It should take us about 5 days of driving if we drive around 8 hours/day. With Buck along, we'll need to stop about every 2 hours for a crawl/potty/sanity/hey-I'm-only-one break. It will give us a chance to see a little Canadian scenery as well. I'll try to have pictures that do not only feature parks & fast food restaraunt play areas.
I will briefly list where we're headed on tomorrow's leg of the journey (Day 1 of TCH):
Toronto (Etobicoke)
Parry Sound
Sudbury
Sault St. Marie
It will take us 2 days to get out of Ontario -- and we're so excited to see the beautiful area around the Great Lakes. It will be a mini vacation if Buck is agreeable. We've turned his car seat to face forward (a perk of being 1 year), so he will be able to see what we see - or to see a video if he's acting a bit cranky. I have to say that the video-watching should be quite a bonus for all of us.
On a "posting" note, I'll be changing the Titles of the posts as we travel. No songs, just -- Day ___ of TCH (Trans-Canada Highway). I'm sure that's pretty basic.
Finally, we said good-bye to our new close friends here and even spent a few minutes having espresso with our Italian next door neighbor. I cried a few times. It's hard to leave, but we're excited to be out West again.
Talk to you tomorrow!
posted by BGrady at 4:33 PM
4 Comments:
Happy Trails! Are you equiped with Willie Nelson's greatest...'On the road again...Just can't wait to get on the road again' Its not a roadtrip without it!
You know us, YRT! We have about 3 Willie CD's in the (broken) van. Of course, we spent about 3 hours listening to baby music for the first leg (until we were in the accident).
Keep teh faith! You may not remember but you have been there before!
love,
Pa Joad
Thanks, Dad! We're doing ok. I don't remember any of it from before, but I'm sure I will now :)
It's still a fun trip (for the most part). Thanks for the comment!
Love you.
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