Cross Country Tour

Last Sunday, Kris and I headed out on the road to quickly drive to Calgary to apply for our visas on Monday morning, and then turn around and race back to Winnipeg so that Kris could go to work Tuesday morning.

It was the longest drive we've ever done on our own, and it's not something we would suggest doing. It was fun, and it was some nice together time, but it's still not a recommended drive.

Here's the things I learned while driving across the country:

• Porcupines need to learn how to cross the road
• Saskatchewan is not as boring as people would lead you to believe, but it does smell funny
  
• There is nothing nice to look at between Medicine Hat and Calgary
  
• There are more hills in between Brandon and Winnipeg than there are between Medicine Hat and Calgary
• Apparently a lot of tires break down on the trans-can
• There's a Cost-co in the middle of nowhere just outside of Swift Current
• Winnipeg seems to be the only city not built like every other Canadian city on Hwy 1. These other cities you drive through just enough to get to a hotel, a place for food, maybe a superstore, and lots of places to gas up, and then after a km or 2, you exit out to the bypass. Winnipeg, you either drive through all the way, or you by-pass all the way. We need to work on that.
• There seems to be a country wide gas shortage that no one is talking about.
• Canada, all of it, is really quite pretty. We need to enjoy it more.