And the countdown begins… In around 12 hours, I will be waking up and heading to my sister’s to pick up my mum for our latest adventure. When we set out on our first trip in 2011, we had no idea that we would still be doing it 7 years later. In the last 7 years, I have visited 75 restaurants that have been featured on one Food Network show or another, and I can say that we have only been disappointed once.
Last year was our first trip in Canada, and we decided that we should do the same thing this year. Ever since my mum picked the destination of Winnipeg, I’ve been having a lot of surprised reactions since we’ve gone to places like Yellowstone, Jasper, Big Sur, San Francisco and Portland. Why Winnipeg, they ask. I was a bit surprised myself, when Mum suggested Winterpeg, but after planning the trip, I’m quite excited about exploring parts of Canada that I haven’t seen on my three previous cross-Canada trips.
We will be staying in Kamloops for the first night, before heading to Valemount for Sunday’s end of day. We will meet up with the Yellowhead Hwy and follow it east through Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Yorkton to Winnipeg. We are spending two nights in The Peg, with a side trip to Gimli. On our westward journey we are staying in Regina, Swift Current, Medicine Hat (with a side trip down to the Cypress Hills), Lethbridge, Castlegar, Summerland (with a trip on the Kettle Valley Railway), Salmon Arm, and finally Hope, before heading back to the Island on the Sunday of Labour Day weekend.
I have included a map, below, that shows our trip. Thank you for reading and I’ll post our first day’s adventures tomorrow.
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