If you are here and new to this trip I just want to let you know it is entirely in reverse!!!

Friends have asked what was our favourite thing on the trip and we mostly answer that this country of Canada is big and beautiful and full of interesting places and things to see. However, we can say some specific favourites when given a moment to think. I must also remind you there is a page in this site that is called Favourite places in Canada. This list though could be considered the final favourites:

Province: Nova Scotia, Canada

City: Ottawa, Ontario

Town: St. Andrews-By-The-Sea, New Brunswick

National Park: Gros Morne, Newfoundland

Provincial Park: Cypress Hills Interprovincial, Alberta & Saskatchewan

Walking trail: Barnaby Head, New River Provincial Park, New Brunswick

Historic Site: Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Museum: Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

Public Garden: Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia

Ferry: Chi Cheemaun, Georgian Bay, Ontario

Restaurant: D’Orsay, Old Quebec City, Quebec

Event: Canada Day, Ottawa, Ontario

Performance: Macbeth, Stratford, Ontario

Campground: Birds Hill Provincial Park, Manitoba

Beachcombing: Shore on West Coast of Newfoundland in Gros Morne

Scenic drive: Saskatoon to Winnipeg … okay that’s a joke, we can’t narrow this down to one … a list of good drives takes you across the country! Just do it!

Ice cream
Biggest - Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia
Best soft ice cream - Prince Rupert Ferry (Island Farms Dairy)
Most expensive - Baskin Robbins, 17th Ave. Calgary, Alberta
Best hard ice cream - Bancroft, Ontario (Kawartha Dairy)

Is this enough already? We think so.

Lawrie left for a caribou hunt up the Dempster Highway, (not too far from the Arctic Circle) on Saturday. I stayed at home and moved the trailer stuff to the house and moved house stuff from room to room and then back again. It seems like that is all I’m doing, moving things, and I don’t think that is much fun. I’d rather be knitting, gazing at the scenery as it goes by. Oh well! Lawrie arrives home Monday morning, at 4 am and rings the doorbell. I wasn’t waiting up for him, but I did get up to let him in! They were successful with the hunt, though we have just gone to a vegan diet, so someone else is going to enjoy Lawrie’s meat.

Cam Kirkpatrick photo - Early morning on the Dempster Highway

Cam Kirkpatrick photo - Lawrie with his caribou

Cam Kirkpatrick photo - Dempster Highway scenery

We both spend the next few days moving stuff around until mostly everything is put away and relocated to its normal place. This is way more work than we ever expected. Finally by the weekend we can just relax and start to mentally prepare for going back to work on Monday. Sigh!