https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:48:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/nova-scotia-new-brunswick/ Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:08:53 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/nova-scotia-new-brunswick/   After disembarking from the ferry on Friday, we drove a couple of hours before crashing and then finished the drive to Halifax on Saturday. Doug’s father actually lives in Lower Sackville. We stayed here until Sunday the 21st. Doug flew to LA on the 15th and returned on the 19th. Fran hung around with […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/newfoundland/ Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:07:47 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/newfoundland/   The ferry crossing was pretty calm and it was beginning to clear.  This ferry is pretty darn cheap. We paid $45.10 for the rig and us for a 1.5 hour sailing!  BC ferries could learn something here. We drove up the north peninsula of NFLD passing through many small towns right along the coast.  […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/labrador/ Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:01:27 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/labrador/   Labrador City was sunny and cool.   We saw a few mines nearby, one of them being one of the largest iron ore mines in the world.  There were lots and lots of mind dumps.  There was a Mickey Dee’s so we parked there for a bit getting internet before spending the night near at […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/quebec/ Sun, 07 Sep 2014 01:27:35 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/quebec/ Bonjour Quebec:  here we come! Our first stop in La Belle Province was for beer (cheaper than in Ontario).  We then drove to Morin Heights where Fran lived when she was born.  The hospital she was born in was in Saint Jerome but her parents lived in Morin Heights, northwest of Saint Jerome.  Small town […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/ontario-part-one/ Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:22:13 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/ontario-part-one/   After Isle Royale National Park, we crossed back into Canada and made our way to Thunder Bay, Ontario.  We visited with our friends, Dennis & Susan (he was Doug’s boss back in 1993 when he worked up there) and then spent the rest of the evening with our friends, Nadine & Mike and slept in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/dip-into-minnesota/ Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:08:53 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/dip-into-minnesota/     We left Manitoba and crossed the US border into North Dakota heading southeast to fill up with cheaper gas enroute to old stomping grounds from 2004 – 08:  Eagan, MN.  We spent that night in Crookston, MN in a fairgrounds overflow parking lot. Friday morning we drove through the Detroit Lakes area into […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/manitoba/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:15:41 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/manitoba/   We had a beautiful sunny drive into this province late in the afternoon.  We drove eastwards to Dauphin, north of Riding Mountain National Park, where we spent the night. We arose early next day with the hope of catching some wildlife as we drove south through the park.  We dressed for hiking in “mosquito […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/across-canada-saskatchewan/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:57:21 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/across-canada-saskatchewan/ We made an interesting little stop outside the town of Hafford, where the “Crooked Bush” is located.  It’s a small grove of aspen trees that have “genetically mutated” to be all crooked and bent. That night we slept in Prince Albert – home of John Diefenbaker.   Even here in Saskatchewan, gas is not much more […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/across-canada-alberta/ Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:43:32 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/across-canada-alberta/ We arrived in Banff NP and hiked the Johnston Canyon trail – almost 13 km.  The first 3km are on paved trails and catwalks through the canyon past many waterfalls; some beautiful scenery.  Then you continue hiking and the terrain changes to a well maintained dirt path with some tree roots at times and lots […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/british-columiba/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:40:31 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/british-columiba/   After a week in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, where we visited our parents, we caught the 4pm ferry “by the skin of Tigger” on June 28th.  We went to North Vancouver to visit our good friends, Therese & Pat Bryan.  We enjoyed lovely fresh fare from their garden and spent the night in our rig […]]]>