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Our Road Trips — Tested Routes With Real Details

Every trip here is one we took ourselves. Real distances, real costs, real stops — and honest notes on what was worth it.

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Busy urban plaza with historic red-brick buildings, strung pendant lights, a bicycle detour sign, orange globe street lamps, and pedestrians browsing outdoor market stalls with yellow and red umbrellas

Vancouver in One Day: Garden, Aquarium, Stanley Park and Gastown

One sunny day, four stops: a garden with its own beehives, Canada's largest aquarium, the Stanley Park seawall on a tandem and Gastown after dark.
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Turquoise lake surrounded by forested mountains and snow-capped peaks, with weathered wooden pilings and a concrete structure in the shallow water

Driving from Canmore to Vancouver in One Day

We left Canmore in fog at six in the morning and reached Vancouver twelve hours later. One driver, homemade jerky, a dachshund with opinions about speed, and mountains the whole way.
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Twilight view of a calm lake framed by evergreen trees and silhouetted pine branches, with distant forested shoreline and mountains under a blue evening sky

Winnipeg to Nestor Falls: Five Quiet Days by an Ontario Lake

Four hours from Winnipeg — and five days when we barely used the car. Our route to Nestor Falls, our stay on Pinus Lake, canoeing with Nika, Caliper Lake, the campfire and what we actually spent.
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Person sitting on grassy shoreline overlooking calm blue lake with rocky beach and forested far shore under clear sky

Driving to Nutimik Lake from Winnipeg

Leave Winnipeg at two on a Friday and 131 kilometres later you're in the water — with a hand-built suspension bridge four minutes down the road.
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Turquoise lagoon with green vegetation along the shoreline and blue sky with white clouds overhead

A Day Trip to Steep Rock: Manitoba’s Turquoise Secret

Our friends said Steep Rock wasn't worth it. We had to see for ourselves — and drove three hours to Manitoba's own little Mediterranean of limestone cliffs and turquoise water.
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