Well it’s that time again. Tomorrow morning I will be embarking on the seventh annual food trip with my mum. This year, in honour of Canada 150, we are staying in Canada. Although we are only going for 10 days, I have packed a lot of great food, attractions and scenery into our trip.
We will be travelling approximately 2,500 km across the Trans-Canada to the Icefields Parkway and up to Jasper, Edmonton, Drumheller and then back across the Trans-Canada through Golden, Salmon Arm and Hope. On the outward journey we will be travelling up the Coq, however, I hope to travel down the Thompson and Fraser Canyons on the old Hwy 1 on our return journey.
We have visited most of these locations before on previous family trips, but this time we are looking to explore, not only new food places, but also the beautiful landscape. (I think my mum may get sick of me wanting to continually pull over to take pictures of the mountains – and she thought I was bad with the Pacific coast lol).
I have not planned this trip as rigidly as I normally have. I have decided that life is too short to stick to a tight schedule. Mum and I have discovered that it doesn’t matter how much research you do, you will always find several things along the way that you would like to have time to do, but don’t. This year we have a couple of long windshield days, but I’ve tried to leave tons of time for us to go from point A to B. Hopefully this will also allow me to blog a bit more. I find at the end of a long day it takes me so much longer to put my thoughts down than it really should, so I hope to blog as I go through the day and save it as a draft. Then when I’m in the hotel at the end of the day I can just add pictures and tweak it.
I enjoy being able to blog and share our experiences as we visit these Food Network restaurants (we’re up to 63 so far) and explore along the way. I hope you enjoy reading my daily updates and I welcome your comments.
Talk to you tomorrow from Harrison Hot Springs.
L
