The following are road trip stories, pictures & videos submitted by your fellow Canadians. Enjoy!
Creepyville U.S.A.
A few friends and I thought it would be great to drive through 9 states
in seven days. Yeah...this meant an 18 hour day and a 32 hour driving
spree included. Very uncool.
So the Grand canyon was a blast, and Vegas...but roads in the U.S. are not like Canadain roads at all. We were in a jeep and running low on gas somewhere, god only knows where, in Nevada.
The road was under construction we took a detour at night to some town err..gas station. The Locusts there were the size of dogs and I think they were eating sheep and horses or something. Well, it was midnight and the scariest woman in a moomoo dress came and pumped gas for us as she yelled at her son to "Git back in dare'n stop starin at the new folk!"
*shivers*
we ran out of gas after that again, but ended up in a town (I kid you
not) called "the Gap" it was a gap alright. A gap in the genepool,
yay Utah.
Next place we ran out of gas was Snowville, Utah. Yes, Snowville, and
yes it snowed...and yes, it was July.
Thank god I'm home. Yay Vancouver.
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dog chase
one time on our way up to kelowna we where on the over pass, and the next
thing we know...we have this savage lookin germen shepard at the bumper
of our car chasing us!! we where like o no a dog chasing us in the middle
of no where! but it stopped chasing us and we kept going!
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whoo, Powell river
I'm in a vocal jazz group at my skool, and we went to a chorale summit
in Powell river. We have to wear a unifrom in preforamnce, black tie,
vest, ect.
After the preformance, I started to walk back to my hotel with a friend and I loosened my tie, just a bit. It was really windy, and as I was walking across the bridge outside the rec centre, my tie came undone and flew off. I couldn't find it anywhere! Well, We left for the ferry, and as I got on, guess what was in the water by the ferry dock. My tie.. a little grungy, but it was my tie.... AUGH!
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Streaking
On a hot summer night, a bunch of my girlfriends and a couple of guys
we picked up went on a road trip from St. Kitts to Toronto. On the way
we knew a remote area to skinney dipping so we decided to dare the boys
into doing it. They did it leaving there clothes beside the car and ran
into the warm water. As soon as they did we took off with there clothes,
but to our surprise a police officer came and we took off with all the
boys clothes!
Needless to say we picked them up the next morning and bailed them out. It was a road trip I'll never forget!
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Walmart bbq
Me and a friend of mine went roadtripping to kamloops and our place to
stay fell through so we were stuck sleeping in her car with a little propane
bbq. We decided to go cook some hotdogs and we went to walmart cause it
sounded good at the time so we arrived and parked near some rv's so we
didnt look really stupid. It was so windy though we couldn't get the thing
started with a lighter or anything, finally one of the R.Ver's gave us
a bbg lighter which still wouldn't work so we ended having a fire at Michael's
craft store under their little cement covering in front of the doors and
finally after an hour and a half we enjoyed the dogs.
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Babysitting
Okay i was going to missouri to babysit and it was a 29 hour drive from
where i live so i couldnt fall asleep because when i did i woke up to
the 7 year old kid licking my arm or ear or something and kids whining
and stuff it was the worst.
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A Trip Up The Mountain
One day before my boyfriends birthday party we decided to go on a trip
up Mt. Prevost. It was me, my boyfriend Jack, my best friend Vickie and
Jacks friends Lee and Kenny. Lee was driving and we drove up to this beautiful
spot on the top of the mountian that looked down at all the trees and
and scenerey. On the way back we went on little jumps and stopped half
way down to look at all the lights. It was the funniest mini-road trip
I ever went on!
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Wells Gray Park snowed in!
I am sure all of you have heard of the provincial park in clearwater bc
called Wells Gray Park, well me my best friend and my boyfriend all decided
to go check out a few of the famous waterfalls up there since my boyfriend
had never really seen any! well we ended up seeing about 2 of them and
headed up some dirt road where i guess a really nice look out point was.
well about 20 minutes up this road a snow storm hit us within 5 seconds,
it literally went from no snow to about past your knees snow. well we
decided to turn around but instead of turning around we just dug our way
deeper into the snow. so of course me the big bush girl i am( yeah right)
and my boyfriend try digging us out we tried using sticks for traption
i guess and that didn't work. But i guess it had been a good thing i had
been going to the gym for the past few months because me and my boyfriend
used all of our strenght and pushed the truck out. i couldn'e believe
it! and yeah this truck is not small thing its a F250 so of course i had
made myself quite proud.lol. anyways thinking this was it we get in but
because there was so much snow we slid right into the ditch on the side
of this dirt road. so half the truck was on the road and half not. there
was no way possible we could have pushed that out! Of course it was like
an hour from getting dark and it is the middle of march and we are probably
the only people up this mountain for this time of year! So we headed out
down the trail, practically running because i know what kind of animals
are out there and i didn't want to be there dinner. lol. so we jogged
down, while seeing all different kinds of paw prints, until reaching the
main road. where we figured someone should drive by, but no. We just kept
walking for about another 45 minutes after jogging down this trail for
almost an hour, until we saw a lodge or cabin in the distance. Thank god
for that place. Alady lived there and said she would drive us downtown
to get a truck to help us pull this truck out. One of our friends has
a F450 and pulled us out later that night with no trouble. so i guess
next time we feel in the mood to see waterfalls we should wait until tourist
season. hahaha.
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Orangeville to Ottawa
My friend and I were on our way to Worlds in Ottawa on one of the worst
storms this winter. It took us 3 hours to clear Toronto..on the way we
had to try to find a smoke on the highway...we found one, but it was definetly
hard to get it. then it was my friends turn to drive....she ditched the
car..well almost, so i got out to check and see how close we were to being
in the ditch. A trucker drove by and nearly killed us so i gave him the
finger. Well, that pissed him off so he pulled his truck over and started
yelling at me in italian then he hit my car and left a huge dent in my
hood!!! It had taken us 10hours to get just to trenton..there was no more
driving for us!!
We ended up having to stay in a hotel...that went ok until the morning, we forgot to pack tooth paste and the hotel gave us the hardest bristly tooth brush with squeeze out toothpaste..so..it didnt help the morning breath factor..then when i went to open the curtain and it came crashing down on my head! We fixed it sort of..as we tried to get out..another truck had ditched itself right infront of timmys...not cool. However, we did eventually get to ottawa and had lots of fun. The ride home sadly, was not so eventful!!
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Surfing 'a' mexicana
While on vacation in Mexico, My friends and I decided to travel along
the coast to try out this bay, where we heard the surfing was amazing.
As we were students and the cash flow was short we took the local bus.
Let me tell you that the buses in Mexico are NOT what we are used to in Canada. There wasn't an actual bus stop, but my buddy 'Tom' was fluent in Spanish and we were told that you just stand on the edge of the dusty road and when the bus comes along then you take it. So we sat down along the side of the road. As there is no time schedual we waited and waited. Fianaly we saw our transportaion, breaks screached to a halt, we got on to the bus, paid our 8 pessos (about $1) and looked around for a seat. The bus was packed,about 50 people and no air conditioning. No problem I hugged my board against my chest and squeezed along the isle with 'Tom' and 'Jim' following, to the one kinda open spot..........right by the fishermen with his stinky catch of the day submerged in water in a 5 gallon buckett.
As the bus roared to life belching black desiel smoke into the humid
air, the fishermans catch sloped on to the floor by our feet. Smelly fishy
mess.... yuck. I was grosed out untill I noticed that this bus had its
own drainage system..... holes rusted into the floor of the bus.
After being seranaded by not so talented but very loud and enthousiastic
musicians. Having to deal with a woman and her two live chickens that
she was taking to markett. Missing our stop twice, as nothing is marked,
we were very glad to finally get to our bay to go surfing.
The trip was a huge cultural experience, but nothing could beat some of the waves that we all road that day. Surf's up baby!
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Where's the toliet
K i went to englad and asked where the bethroom was.(and i really had
to go to the bathroom) so they took me to the bathroom but in england
it`s called the loo(the bathroom is the bath and sink)anyways i couldn`t
find the toilet anywhere. I asked and said where is the bathroom and they
said here. so i was going to just go when i herd the toliet flush. so
i went over to the noise and in that room there was only one toliet. no
sink or anything i was laughing weil just about peeing my pants. just
because i thought that was so funny i took my whole family to the "bathroom"
when they had to go and they all laughed to
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Too long in a minivan
Right after our midterms, we headed to Mexico for reading week. This trip
involved 9 days and some long nights. 6 of us girls decided to be part
of the journey, all in a cramped little minivan, all the way from Edmonton.
26 hours later, with four pee and gas breaks, we were in Vegas. We took
our time the next couple of days and enjoyed the California coast, the
Mexican markets, the LA subway system, raccoons in Santa Fe and the trolley
in San Franscico. And we made it back for class on Monday after a good
week, feeling trapped in a minivan and at the same time free to go anywhere
and experience anything.
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The smell of friends....
My most memorable road trip, myself and my two best friends, at the age
of 16 we decided on a wrestling road trip to vancouver.
After filling up on junk food the entire day and getting chased by three
hookers on hastings street, we returned back to where we were suppose
to stay.
My friends uncle wasnt home so we stayed in my grandmas neon. the car that i drove to vancouver. Three pretty big guys sleeping in a neon with a gut full of junk food, we slept for a few hours and when we woke up it smelled like someone had killed a moose and left it rotting in the trunk. Regardless to say that is one road trip that none of us will forget.
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Rusty truck trip
Spring break of 2002 my sister and my dad and 33 yr old half brother went
on a road trip to Arizona and Mexico, but we used a truck my dad had bought
the day before. It had no power steering and was a huge beast. It had
rust holes in the bottom, but we thought it wouldn't matter because we're
going somewhere warm (compared to Canada).
Well it was spring break,and driving through Idaho it was snowing like crazy and our heater wasn't working, so my sister and I lied down in the back seat and piled blankets on us, but the rust holes were right where our heads were! We put up with that for the 6 hours that it took us to get through Idaho. The horrible thing was that the heater didn't work, and my dad put cardboard in the engine so it would heat up the cab. Unfortunately, the cardboard caught fire, so we had to live with freezing our faces off. Next time I'm taking a bloody plane.
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A Good Way to Save Gas Money
Well this amusing road trip takes place while I was driving that sunny
island Australia.
It starts off at noon after a late night partying on the beach in Coral Bay on the west coast. John, an english guy that was kind enough to let me travel in his van; woke me up to see if I wanted to head out of town and get on the road to seeing as his friend from back home left a couple hours earlier with 6 other english backpackers in their 2 rental cars. I decided to leave town and meet up with his friends 5 hours down the coast.
As I was passing a gas station after driving for 2 hours, I noticed a man running out of the gas station and start frantically jumping up and down waving his arms. Because John was sleeping, he didnt notice this, so I woke him up and told him I was turning around to see what was going on. John was very against this but I was wondering why this man seemed so excited on the road. When we got closer John said "that looks like Dan" (his friend that left a couple hours earlier). We pull up beside Dan and find out that one of the rental cars died, and they were told to leave it there. Seeing as the other rental car was a small Hyundai Excel and could only fit 4 people, that left 3 people needing a ride and they were hoping we decided to leave and drive past them.
After we loaded up the van, we were slowly on our way again with myself driving. I was keeping the van under 100km\hr with all the weight in it. A few hours later I decided to to let someone else take the wheel, while I laid in the back. So Johns friend Dan said he would drive. He drove for an hour but was reaching speeds of 120km\hr. All of the sudden the engine started making a really loud knocking noise, and our friends in the rental car following us started honking and flashing their lights at us to pull over cause of all the black smoke pouring out of the exhaust. The guy driving the rental car named dangerousDave was a mechanic back home, came to the conclusion that it would be lucky to make it back to the gas station we passed 10kms ago. So he headed back to the gas station to drop off the people in the car and come back for us. He brought back a steel towing cable that was about 2 metres long to try to tow us back. This was successful but I had to concentrate on not hitting him causing damage.
It was getting late, and dodging kangaroos while towing a van would be
to hard so we decided to camp on the side of the road and wait till the
morning to tow the van behind the car to the next town just over 300kms
away. Luckily there was a pub beside the gas station for some reason,
so it wasnt all bad news. We woke up and got on our way with dangerousDave
driving the rental car and myself at the wheel of the van getting towed
with 4 other guys and all our gear in it. This was a very jerky ride to
begin with, but we eventually worked it out that I would be the brakes
whenever he gave me the signal. We actually were going at a good speed
untill we had to go up a hill. It took just over 4 hours to get to our
destination.
At the mechanics, he pretty much said we were out of luck and better start
looking for a new engine at the scrap heap.
We agreed to tow the van another 400kms to get to Perth, and we were "on the road again". Halfway to Perth we decided to take a detour and check out the Pinnacles at a national park. After seeing the rocks we finally made it to Perth and had to drive to the other side of city to get to a hostel. We pondered what to do with the van for a couple days and finally John got rid of the van for $150 to get it out of his sight, and feeling that it had paid its due after putting 17 000kms on it.
All in all, a little 4 cylinder Hyundai towed the van almost 800kms down the west coast with 9 people and all our gear. It wasnt what we had planned but we did save alot of money on gas.
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Highway from Hell
Picture in your mind, a beetle bug with six people, a highway in Saskatchewan
so chewed up you feel like your in Mexico. Prairie North of you, South
of you, East of you and West of you. Then the horror is written all over
your cramped up face, no drive-thrus!
Finally off in the distance is a little town you never heard of, and there you find not only a gas station, but also a store. The aroma of over fried chicken smells better than anything you have ever smelt. By the time it is your turn to crawl out of the car you can barely unfold your legs. You drag yourself to the door, to find out it is closed between noon and one, and it's five after twelve!
I have to take the most dangerous positon other than the driver. I find myself stradling the gearshift with sweaty Hoss next to me. It is a bit of a reprieve from being squished in the back with two of not only my better friends but also the biggest busted girls I know. I will never look at the female chest in the same way again. I'm sure it will take me years of thearapy to undue this damage. Would I go on this adventure again, in a heartbeat.
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Flying without wings
Well here it is...me and my buddies went on a trip to Whistler,BC to go
snowboarding(their first time, not mine)and we rented our boots, boards,
and bought our tickets. We hoped on the lift and when we got to the top,
my friend was a bit too anxious to get off. He had a bottle of pop in
his pocket and he jumped off the lift a bit too early, and the bar snagged
his pop in his pocket. So here I am sitting next to this guy dangling
below the chair lift cursin at them to stop the stupid thing and im laughing
soo hard I almost pissed myself. He then starts squirming, falls out of
his jacket, lands partly on his snowboard and takes off down the hill
not even meaning too. OMG, I never knew how close a guy could scream like
a girl.
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Rented Wagon
My boyfriend & I rented a wagon in university one weekend in November.
As we approached the highway we flipped a coin, heads east, tails west.
We ended up traveling westbound towards Toronto (from Kingston). We stopped
in Uxbridge for dinner at a pub then stayed the night in Newmarket. The
next evening we ended up in Bobcaygeon ONt (with the coin flipping method).
We had a drink at the bar, however it was closing at 9pm. We wanted to
stay up to watch a metor shower due at 4am. The bartender suggested that
we go next door to this private party and say that he sent us. So we ended
up crashing this party where everyone was looking at us like "they
arent from around here". We ended up having drinks with an intoxicated
couple for a couple of hours. When that ended we hung out in the wagon
for the metoer shower. When it finally came it was amazing..we started
to count, and lost track after 200 shooting starts. It was so beautiful.
We spent the night in the wagon and then headed back to Kingston the next
day. I dont have any digital pictures, however we have pictures of it.
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Going to the coast
Its was a day of wind and rain. I was on my way down to the coast to visit
my mom with my grams. It was a very interesting ride. There was always
at least 5 hott guys on the bus at a time.*giggle*.I talked to one of
them too when I sat at the back of the GREYHOUND bus. He was trying to
smoke pot without getting caught. We watched a movie together and exchanged
numbers. When he got off the bus and I went back to sit with my grandma
she could smell the marajuana. I didnt smoke it but she said I did just
cause I smelt like it. Everyone on the bus smelt like it. About have way
to my destination, a man in his late 30's got on the bus and tryed sweet
talking this lady behind us. He got so personal trying to get her number,
her email, and address. I finally spoke up to the lady and told her not
to give him any info because I suspected he might be trying to get something,
if ya know what I mean. It made me proud knowing I might've stopped something
that could've gotten someone hurt. We got to the bus depot at about 6:30pm.
I had this oragne juice in the front of my bag that was in a glass bottle.
My grandma asked me to watch for the bus, but when I went to backup to
get out of my seat. I accidentally knocked over my bag and the bottle
broke, I almost hit this chinese girl with it. I was so imbarrassed because
i hadn't realized it had broken until I looked down and there was a puddle
of juice all over. I had to get one of the restaurant workers to clean
it up for me. When we had gotten on our last bus there was still alot
of juice in my bag still, liek a puddle n' it dripped all over the bus.
When I got off I was told never to bring food on the bus again or I would
be banned off that bus line.
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Oh what happen's when you miss your turn
Well my best friend and I were going on a roadtrip to go to our boyfriend's
places in Nelson, BC. Well on the way there, we missed the turn that goes
to Nelson, right before the border... well of course after we missed it,
and there was no where to turn around, we had to go through... So, we
explain the situation to the boarder patrol, and they allow us to turn
around, so we go to go back through the otherside, and they ask us to
pull over... Oh it was horrible. They pulled everything out, they searched
everything, including our bags.... but the funny part is, they were patting
us down, I guess to see if we had anything on us, and one of them accidently
hit my bf's "johnson". Well, the officer said,"Well, I
guess there's nothing down there but the hardware, eh!" It was soooo
funny. We couldnt stop laughing all the way to Nelson. It was a little
scary, but the boarder patrol ppl had to do what they had to do. And hey,
it gave us something to laugh about, right?!
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Merritt Mountain Music Festival - It's not all about the country music!
Every July, my girlfriends and I go to the Merritt Mountain Music Festival
in BC. We find the biggest truck we can find (usually a 4 door, Ford 350,
Diesel monster of a truck), fill the crew cab with lots of food, beer
& water and head off... for those who have been to Merritt, tell me
this isn't the best week of the year?! Tons of people, too many trucks,
crazy amounts of cowboy hats, tubing down the river, the beer garden,
the super soakers, the dirt, the tans & sunburns, the way-packed shuttle
buses, the grasshoppers,Camp Ground C & Tent City.... thank you Merritt!
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It's a small world.
When you travel with your best chickie from Vancouver to Montreal, you
drive past many hitch-hikers. But do you drive past the cute ones? Last
summer, my best chickie and I decided to stop and offer him a ride. Turns
out, even though we were 4 provinces away from our home town, that cute
hitch-hiker was brother's with my highschool crush! Talk about a small
world and a great road trip!
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Guess it's not Summer Here!
One of those signs that just doesn't give off a fun, summer feel!
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