Itinerary

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June 4: Leave home in Port Coquitlam, BC. Drive along the scenic southern route of Highway 3 to Nelson. Stay in a motel, visit my friend Beth and her family, and go to Ainsworth Hot Springs.

June 5: Leave Nelson and travel as-yet-undetermined route to Calgary, Alberta, where we'll stay with Scott's friend Dave and his family.

June 6: Leave Calgary early and head northeast to Drumheller to visit the dinosaur museum and look at dinosaur bones (boys! Scott's been drooling about this since we started planning the trip). We'll spend a few hours before heading off to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (actually a little bump in the road called Grandora), to stay with my step-dad's sister.

June 7: Leave Saskatoon and drive as fast as we can through field after field to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Plans to stay with my dad's cousin fell through, so we're spending more than budgeted for a hotel with high speed internet. Scott has a test tonight.

June 8: Leave Winnipeg and spend the drive arguing about whether or not to stay in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Scott has an unexplainable hate-on for Thunder Bay. My dad was born here. Camping or motelling will depend on weather and mosquitos.

June 9: Leave Thunder Bay (or nearby town) and drive to Sault Ste. Marie. Apparently it's quite scenic. Accomodations as per Thunder Bay. Possibly try to meet up with my friend Tekla who lives in northern Michigan.

June 10: Leave Sault Ste Marie and drive to Ottawa. Spend the night at a nice hotel.

June 11: Be tourists in Ottawa. The dogs will be dropped in doggie daycare somewhere. Scott wants to see the Museum of Civilization. Of course we'll look at the Parliament Buildings.

From here we're undecided. We may spend the night somewhere between Ottawa and Montreal camping or motelling, or we might drive straight to Montreal and stay at another nice hotel, since it's a nice city. If we do the former, we'll spend the following day in Montreal being tourists and then drive to Quebec City for a night's stay in a nice hotel.

Our last leg takes us to Port Howe, Nova Scotia. My step-dad's brother has a cottage on the beach where we'll stay for a few days before heading on our western journey home, through the US.