Rob-n-Hild, oot and aboot eh? Sorry - 2022

The day came: We left Ottawa Monday 2nd May at 6 am. We were so excited. We had planned this trip for many years, and we could do a long trip because of the lack of 3 P-s: Pets, Plants, and Progeny!

To prevent us from having all these fun experiences and forgetting them (remember how old we are!), we have filed our photos and stories as we travelled across Canada. You may also find it a fun read if you are bored one day. By the way, sorry to those Canadians who feel offended by 'oot and aboot'. Not everyone says that, some do, and as Hild's mum points out "that's how we say it in Shetland too"!

Back home: After 55 days, we arrived back home in Ottawa on Saturday 25th June at 3:08 pm. As by magic, Norah sent a welcome-home email which arrived at 3:10 pm! Fantastic timing. We felt good about being home again - unpacking, doing laundry, washing Mary Jane. Oddly enough, the largest change was being able to sit in any number of chairs in our apartment compared to a car seat, a hotel chair, or hotel bed. Best of all - we are back at our desks and in our office chairs! Back to normal, if there is such a thing...

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June 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 __ __ __ __ __

The intrepid travellers: Hild, Yogi, and Rob

.... and of course, Mary Jane who carried us all the way!

Some of our key tools for the trip:
* Dinky-Pad: the iPad with map for navigation, booking hotels, and finding trivia about places great and small
* Max2: the hand-held GPS to track our route and generate fun/nerdy maps and statistics
* Snusmumrikken (Snus for short): the mobile hotspot to bring internet wherever we go

A vague plan... 10,176 km in 116 hours

This is a map showing a vague plan of where we thought we may (or may not?) go between Ottawa and Vancouver Island and back.

The final route... 14,397.2 km in 187 hours

This is a map showing the actual route between Ottawa and Vancouver Island and back.

May	Wawa, Thunder Bay, Kenora 02 \| 03 \| 04 \| 05	Winnipeg, Gimli, Riding Mountain 06 \| 07 \| 08 \| 09	Saskatoon to Edmonton 10 \| 11 \| 12
	Edmonton to Jasper 13 \| 14 \| 15	Jasper to Prince George 16 \| 17	Prince George to Cache Creek 18 \| 19 \| 20
	Cache Creek, Kamloops to Richmond 21 \| 22	Richmond to Nanaimo 23 \| 24	Nanaimo, Campbell River, Tofino, Victoria 25 \| 26 \| 27 \| 28 \| 29 \| 30 \| 31
June	Vancouver, Richmond to Penticton (Okanagan Valley) 01 \| 02	Penticton (Okanagan Valley), Revelstoke to Radium Hot Springs 03 \| 04 \| 05	Radium Hot Springs, Lake Louise, Banff, Canmore 06 \| 07
	Calgary, Dinosaurs, Fort Walsh to Maple Creek 08 \| 09 \| 10	Maple Creek to Grasslands National Park to Moose Jaw to Loreburn to Diefenbaker Dam to Regina 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14	Regina to Portage le Prairie, Winnipeg to Fort Frances 15 \| 16 \| 17
	Fort Frances, Thunder Bay, Sleeping Giant, Silver Islet, Red Rock 18 \| 19 \| 20	Red Rock, Kapuskasing to Val-d'Or 21 \| 22	Val-d'Or to Ottawa 23 \| 24 \| 25

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May/June 2022

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