Tomorrow morning I'm allowing myself to fall prey to Canadian advertising and I'm heading to Newfoundland. For months now, I've stared in awe at the commercials for Newfoundland and Labrador and am blown away by the beauty that exists in my own country, but that I've yet to discover.
I saw more of Australia than most Australians I met. And I met many Australians who had seen more of Canada than I had. So many people use their travel time to go to other countries, without discovering their own. So I'm hoping to change that.
I'm going as far east in Canada as I can get. Me, three of my friends, and two of their dogs, are about to pack ourselves in to my junky car and head to what I'm thinking will be the most beautiful part of Canada I'll ever see. When I'm done, I'll finally have travelled my entire country from east to west. When I was 18 I packed my life into two garbage bags and a backpack and moved from Pembroke, ON to Edmonton, AB on the greyhound. A few months later I made the same trip in a junky truck with a guy who drove the whole way without sleeping, while I pretty much slept right through the prairies. At one time during my stint in Edmonton, a few friends and I drove out to Victoria, BC, which was my only experience in the Rocky Mountains. Unfortunately this was before the age of digital cameras and cellphones, and well before online blogging, so my memories of it are very faded.
Next year I hope to make it back out to BC, and I also want to go north at some point. And I want to drive all over the U.S. And and and...fuck I'm going to take my car everywhere.
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