ROOOAAAAD TRIP
So without bothering to talk about what I've been up to or how I've been doing or why I have neglected livejournal so, I will get straight to the mercenary point:
I am going to be driving a car from Montreal to Vancouver at the end of May.
This will be on the heels of a family trip to Newfoundland, for which I am departing next weekend, giving me approximately a week to plan my entire road trip itinerary. Well actually I had two weeks but I spent most of the first week worrying about how I hadn't planned my trip yet.
The major decision at this point is whether to drive through the US or whether to stick to the Trans Canada for the extremely, very, definitely quite long passage through Northern Ontario. I am leaning pretty heavily towards ducking south, because I've never been to Chicago and also it just seems much more interesting. I already went through Ontario on a train once and all I remember from that part was an endless forest of identical birch trees.
Anyways, the reason this is mercenary is that while I could in theory camp in campgrounds or crash on couchsurfing dot com couches or even (gasp) stay in cheap motels, trips are way more fun when you visit random people you vaguely know on the Internet -- or even people you don't know at all, on the recommendation of other people you mostly don't know.
So maybe that's you? I honestly have no idea who even reads this anymore, or where some of you people actually live, but if you have a couch anywhere west of Toronto and east of Saskatchewan (including points south of that general area) and the thought of a visit from yours truly does not fill you with existential dread, do let me know. (I am particularly interested in not having to pay for a hotel in Chicago.)
I am also accepting recommendations for awesome places to visit/eat/lounge about anywhere along the route, which currently and tentatively looks something like this:
https://maps.google.ca/maps?saddr=montreal&daddr=toronto+to:regina+to:vancouver&hl=en&ll=43.771094,-101.074219&spn=25.047891,57.084961&sll=45.423176,-98.341685&sspn=24.14216,57.084961&geocode=FT5otgIduKed-ykNt2QcVBrJTDHv7x8hODFOZQ%3BFWoYmgIdcLVE-ymlO8bXkMvUiTF3xLQqUFU1Mg%3BFcLgAQMdNdTD-SnrPaX7QB4cUzGxVHu3ljJKNQ%3BFaqq7wIdOW6p-CmzT6lD8XOGVDGL84Gb6paRuw&mra=ls&t=m&z=5
I am going to be driving a car from Montreal to Vancouver at the end of May.
This will be on the heels of a family trip to Newfoundland, for which I am departing next weekend, giving me approximately a week to plan my entire road trip itinerary. Well actually I had two weeks but I spent most of the first week worrying about how I hadn't planned my trip yet.
The major decision at this point is whether to drive through the US or whether to stick to the Trans Canada for the extremely, very, definitely quite long passage through Northern Ontario. I am leaning pretty heavily towards ducking south, because I've never been to Chicago and also it just seems much more interesting. I already went through Ontario on a train once and all I remember from that part was an endless forest of identical birch trees.
Anyways, the reason this is mercenary is that while I could in theory camp in campgrounds or crash on couchsurfing dot com couches or even (gasp) stay in cheap motels, trips are way more fun when you visit random people you vaguely know on the Internet -- or even people you don't know at all, on the recommendation of other people you mostly don't know.
So maybe that's you? I honestly have no idea who even reads this anymore, or where some of you people actually live, but if you have a couch anywhere west of Toronto and east of Saskatchewan (including points south of that general area) and the thought of a visit from yours truly does not fill you with existential dread, do let me know. (I am particularly interested in not having to pay for a hotel in Chicago.)
I am also accepting recommendations for awesome places to visit/eat/lounge about anywhere along the route, which currently and tentatively looks something like this:
https://maps.google.ca/maps?saddr=montreal&daddr=toronto+to:regina+to:vancouver&hl=en&ll=43.771094,-101.074219&spn=25.047891,57.084961&sll=45.423176,-98.341685&sspn=24.14216,57.084961&geocode=FT5otgIduKed-ykNt2QcVBrJTDHv7x8hODFOZQ%3BFWoYmgIdcLVE-ymlO8bXkMvUiTF3xLQqUFU1Mg%3BFcLgAQMdNdTD-SnrPaX7QB4cUzGxVHu3ljJKNQ%3BFaqq7wIdOW6p-CmzT6lD8XOGVDGL84Gb6paRuw&mra=ls&t=m&z=5