https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:03:32 +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/back-to-canada-to-end-the-epic-road-trip/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:08:29 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=69115 August 5th, 2024 GAS:  Quebec:  $1.62 litre = $4.62 USD gallon                   Ontario:  $1.40 CAD litre = $3.85 USD per gallon We left the hotel around 8 am after exercising (there was no hotel breakfast available not even coffee!) so when we stopped to fill up the gas tank once last time, Fran was […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/utah-to-upstate-new-york-2024/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:07:24 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=68923 July 26th, 2024 GAS:  Utah:  $3.25                Wyoming:     $3.00                 South Dakota: $2.99            Minnesota: $3.0 Wisconsin:  $3.29                   Illinois:  $4.29                         Indiana: $3.22             Ohio:  $3.18 Pennsylvania:   $3.45                        […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/nevada-in-2024/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:55:07 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=68780 July 12th, 2024 GAS:  Outside Reno you can find it for $3.50 ish, however, in Reno you cannot find anything under $4.25 – seems there is a 50 cents a gallon tax on gas here in the city. We crossed the state line from Oregon into Nevada and the smoke had cleared up. In Winnemucca, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/washington-state-visit-2024/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:36:14 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=68761 July 9th, 2024 GAS:  In WA we paid $3.66 average After a quick border crossing into Washington State using our NEXUS cards, we made our way to the city of Bellingham to get cheap gas and do a bit of shopping for new glasses for Doug at Costco.  As they have a 7-10 day wait […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/british-columbia-2024/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:41:22 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=68631 June 19th, 2024 Back to the province we call “home”. GAS:  Prices varied around the province – we paid as little as $1.65 but it was $1.89 in Victoria and surprisingly, a little less in Vancouver. After crossing into BC on the Cassiar we stopped at the Welcome to BC sign: We had our breakfast […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-dempster-highway-to-the-arctic-ocean-back/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:52:00 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=68157 June 11th, 2024 Our hotel room was quite warm in Dawson City and neither of us slept well (no AC) so we were up early and after exercising and showers, we hit the road just before 7 and went 36 km / xx mi back down the Klondike to the Dempster Highway turn off.  It […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/canadas-territories-nwt-yukon-heading-west/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:50:04 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=68003 June 5th, 2024 The Northwest Territories is one of federal territories of Canada.  Yellowknife is the capital, most populous community, and only city in the territory sitting the north side of Great Slave Lake. It became the territorial capital in 1967. The name was originally descriptive, adopted by the British government during the colonial era to indicate […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/drive-through-alberta/ Tue, 28 May 2024 16:35:38 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=67856 May 28th, 2024 Gas:  Averages around $1.45 CAD per litre ($3.99 USD a gallon) We crossed the border into Alberta with no issues continuing northbound.  We were headed to Medicine Hat for the night but had a stop to make at the Red Rock Coulees, southwest of the city.   Organic Maps found us a shortcut that […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/northern-usa/ Wed, 22 May 2024 15:46:03 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=67676 May 22nd, 2024 USD:   $1.37 CDN Gas: varied by state – we paid around $3.40 in Michigan, closer to $4 in Illinois and in Wisconsin we managed to get $3.19 – in Minnesota we got $2.94! We took the freeways all the way from the border of Sarnia, Ontario to Port Huron, Michigan to outside […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/two-weeks-back-in-ontario-canada/ Wed, 08 May 2024 23:05:36 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=67670 May 8th, 2024 Since we’d missed our landing gate at JFK from Frankfort due to the medical emergency landing in Manchester, (we were scheduled to land at 2:45) we had to wait to get a gate and even then, we had to wait to be towed in!  So by the time we got off the […]]]>