Think the washing will be every 4th day, that's what happens when you have 3 boys aged 7, 8 & 9 and a toddler aged 18 mths, if the daughter with the 3 kids did her washing weekly she would have to spend 2 days in the laundry getting it all done, hey ask anyone Little Kopit when you get 3 little boys together and they are cousins they get dirty and it does not matter how hard you try to keep them clean.

We are not looking at camping in shopping centre car parks and shopping is the furthest thing from my mind, my sister who is also travelling to Canada was telling me that her daughter and herself are looking forward to going to Edmonson shopping Centre as it is supposed to be the largest shopping centre in the world, you need a car to get from one end to the other, I can tell you that is something I do not want to see.

Camping out for 18 nights and travelling fron Vancouver to Saskatchewan do you thing that we have any chance of seeing the northern lights from these areas, much rather see the northern lights the a big shopping centre, if I want to go shopping I can do that at home.

My son travelled to the USA & Canada when he was 24 for 12 months, 6 weeks before returning home he meet his fiance, they corresponded for about 18 months then she come to Australia for about 6 months, when she went home they both travelled backwards and forwards for about a y18 months, he is in construction and christmas 2 years ago walk around the major construction sites in Canada looking for work, one of the people he spoke too took him on doing all the paperwork with the Australia and Canadian Governements and he ended up in Canada last year September, come home again in July and flew back to Canada in September.

That's our life story

Cheers

Thenewme, you might enjoy this album from a trip to BC by a Dutch couple in 2007.  http://cornelius.phanfare.com/album/325395#imageID=19901547

The photographer is  a member of RVO.

Thanks Little_kopit,


Breath taking.

I really have something to look forward too.

Cheers and thank you

Will do.

Cheers


Little_Kopit wrote on Nov 4^th, 2007 at 7:59pm:

Two points.

1)  Julie, you  & I know someone who  has taken a 40' motorhome into many a National Forest and lived there for a month at a time.  He has GPS and talks to National Forest Rangers.  I'm sure such could be done in some Canadian crown land   Crown land = gov. land.  I think it is possible in British Columbia to do more outdoorsy boondocking.  I can point you to where you can read more about this.

2)  I just have to drag up my best known example of a North American indian name that is very well known.  The Mik'maq Indians have been in Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland for a long long time.  I think that some must have been 'hired' by the French when they came to settle.  You see, the Mik'maq word for "where the river narrows" is Quebec.  & that is both the name for a major Canadian City and a province, west of normal Mik'maq  territory.

"Where the river narrows" is very important.  You see when the British navy and army came to win North America from the French, the French didn't think the English would be able to cross the shallows of  where the St. Lawrence River narrows.  But the English had a young officer with them who was learning about surveying and turning that into water navigation.  His name:  James Cook.

Oh, and to be really selfish, it was during Cooks time surveying Newfoundland waters that he learned the secret to keeping sailors from getting scurvy.  Without that Cook wouldn't be a part of your history in Oz.     & you might be speaking Dutch.