Hey MiG, while we’re on the topics of Canada and travel, I have a month off starting mid-September, and am thinking of doing a quick drive from Rupert to Cape Spear and back. Can it be done in a month? Can it be enjoyable in such a short time?
Can it be done? Yup. Enjoyable? Depends if you like driving.
I did Prince Rupert-North Sydney in 4 days (could have been even faster, but stopped for two nights). So you could do Prince Rupert-St. John’s in 5 days.
If you’re wanting speed, then head down highway 16 until Winnipeg, head south and intercept I-90. Stay on I-90 until just outside Boston, head north on I-95 and intercept the TCH. That’s the fastest, time-wise (despite actually being a longer distance, you avoid the slow stretches in Canada).
If your destination is St. John’s, take the Argentia ferry, which puts you on the old American base. It’s just a couple of hours drive then to Cape Spear. Otherwise, if you take the Port-aux-Basques ferry, you’ll be driving right across Newfoundland.
I’ve also done the cross-continent thing slowly too (via California and the South, and once on the TCH). In fact, it’s probably a good idea just to do it slowly so you get to see things. I can’t handle the Ontario drive, so I usually head south around the great lakes.
The drive is long? Try hitch-hiking! And Portuguese, who could be pissed at them anymore? That would be like being pissed at Italians or Greeks…
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Fastest I’ve ever heard about: Prince Rupert-Sidney, one car, three drivers and a bucket of KFC: three days. Accomplished by Dave McDonald, former Annonciation PE teacher and two guys from Kitimat.
By the way, Dave also swam in the Atlantic and the Pacific on the same new years’ day. He jumped in the Atlantic at 5:00 am in Cape Breton, took an early flight out and flew all day. I saw him on the evening plane to Rupert and he told me that some friends were waiting for him to go right to Rushbrook so he could jump in the water. Two polar bear swims on the same day in different oceans-- does that make him bipolar?
If I were to do it, I think I’d drive from here to there as fast as I could, then drive back slow, making lots of stops and taking in all the sights.
Well, if you average 100km/hr, you can do it in 70 hours to North Sydney, then another 10 hours across Newfoundland (or less if you take the Argentia ferry, though then it’s a longer boat ride).
Again, for speed do HWY 16 to Winnipeg then go south.
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