CDN Miracle Miles

We have been back two weeks now and life has come back to normal.  We will always continue to look at the photos and talk about the trip to all that we meet up with.  The following is a list of places that we visited: 

• Day 6-8 South Dakota:  Sturgis Bike Rally – including Mt. Rushmore, The Needles, & Deadwood
• Day 9 Wyoming:  Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park
• Day 10 Montana:  Beartooth Pass – “America’s most beautiful highway.”
• Day 11 Montana:  Glacier National Park – Going to the Sun Road & Logans Pass, Calgary, Alberta
• Day 12 Alberta/BC:  Crowsnest Pass & Hwy #3 to Nelson
• Day 13 BC:  Hwy #3 to Surrey
• Day 14 Washington:  Whidbey Island ferry to Port Angeles – beginning of Hwy 101 Pacific Coast Highway
• Day 17 Oregon:  Redwood Forest
• Day 18 California:  Route 1 along the coast to San Francisco
• Day 19-21 California:  San Francisco
• Day 23 California:  Hearst Castle
• Day 24 Nevada:  Las Vegas
• Day 25 Nevada & Arizona:   Hoover Dam, Kingman and Oatman, AZ, the oldest part of Route 66 starting at Oatman
• Day 26 Arizona:  Route 66 and Grand Canyon
• Day 27 Arizona & Colorado:   Monument Valley, Durango, Hwy 550-Million Dollar Highway
• Day 28 Colorado:  Monarch Pass, Cripple Creek (The World’s Largest Gold Camp) and Pikes Peak (altitude 14,110 feet, or 4,300 meters – the second most visited mountain in the world, behind Japan’s Mount Fuji)
• Day 34 New York:  Lake Placid and Lake Champlain
• Day 35 New Hampshire:  Mt. Washington
• Day 37 Nova Scotia:  Digby – Wharf Rat Rally then HOME

 In total we traveled approx. 11,000 miles (17,563 km) in 37 days.  We visited 21 states and 6 provinces.  We stayed five nights with family and the rest in hotels/motels.  We spent two nights in Rapid City, four nights in San Francisco, and two nights in Las Vegas – the rest were one night stays.  We had two “hitchhikers” – Cheryl Hawkes from Toronto from Day 3-11(Ottawa to Calgary) and Denise Chiasson from Halifax from Day 18-21 (our San Francisco stop over).  We crossed the Can/US border six times.  We also crossed by ferry on both the east and west coast – St. John, NB to Digby, NS, and Keystone Spit, Widbey Island, OR to Port Townsend, OR.  We followed Hwy #1 in California as well as Hwy #1 Ontario, Quebec, NB, & NS.

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