Well, it has been a long and crazy 2.5 years since we flew home from Florida. Tons of missed school, missed family events and kids who are suddenly getting very old. Alex is 16 and going into Grade 12 in the fall, and after that, who knows how long we'll have all six of us together for family trips? Sandra figured we should do something big as a last possible trip, and has been thinking of a long driving trip out to the Maritimes for quite some time.
Of course, it never is that easy, as COVID rules mean that we aren't going to leave Canada, since it is just too much of a pain, and the massive gas price increases of the past few months may leave us eating dry bread as a meal (that's a joke, but we are planning far fewer restaurant meals than in other trips). On the bonus side, my work has demanded that I use all of my banked holidays before the end of the year, so we have five full weeks to drive out to the Maritimes, explore and then return.
The plan is to drive fairly directly out to the Maritimes, but with a few detours as we explore some things we want to see on the way. We are planning on avoiding all the big cities (Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Quebec City) since we've already explored all of those with the kids. However, we can't completely skip Toronto, at least as far as driving is concerned, since some of my kids want to go back to Niagara Falls, and I want to run by London to visit a small museum there.
Tomorrow we leave as early as we can and head to Winnipeg for the first day of driving. Hopefully we all have a great and fun time.
3 comments:
Good for you guys. I sm sure you will have a great and fun adventure!
This is awesome Jason! I wish you and your family a great time.:)
Have fun ! I love the maritimes! How many provinces are you visiting ? Are you going to Newfoundland? I love Nova Scotia !
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