Tell us where in our glorious country you’ve been. Was it great? Sorry, silly me, of course it was great. How great? And where exactly do you go that was great?
Lots of Americans have been on family trips to the Maritime provinces. A drive around the shores of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island is a festival of small towns and lobster-binges.
Quebec City (the skiing! winter carnival!), Montreal (omg the shopping), Toronto (a shoe museum right across the street from the hallowed halls of the Royal Ontario Museum!) and Vancouver (Stanley Park, wow) are wonderful cities to vacation in, and the countryside in between is beautiful. So green! (Mostly.)
Want to go off the beaten track? From Toronto, take Highway 11 north. Farther north. And a little farther north. Get to Cochrane, where a train will take you where cars can’t, to Moosonee and Moose Factory, on the shores of James Bay (southern basin of Hudson Bay). See an old fur-trading post, one of the oldest buildings in North America.
Back down south again. Algonquin Park is vast, with a good driving corridor for getting just a taste.
Take the train across the Prairies. Five days of flat, with horizons a million miles away.
Rocky Mountains, Lake Louise, more skiing, truly breath-taking scenery, and some terrifying driving.
Arrive in Vancouver (the city) and take a ferry through forest-edged channels to Vancouver Island (the island). Turn left after exiting the ferry and go see Victoria, or turn right to drive alongside the Straits of Georgia. Keep going until the road runs out, at Port Hardy. Turn around and head back to Victoria. As you drive, discuss your good fortune at having seen this awesome country.
Larger map here, at Wiki Commons.
