Sorry for not being around for a few weeks. But we have been busy and are gearing up for the road once again. Every summer we pick up and head to explore Canada.\u00a0 We have been building a passionate relationship with the country since 1995.\u00a0 Our\u00a0 road trip this summer takes us east as we are eager to research the Atlantic provinces.<\/p>\n
For the past few months we have been working on the Northwest Territory website (www.NWTeh.com) . Again with the flashbacks as we paste, write, edit and move forward compiling our notes and photos of the NWT.\u00a0 It is like visiting all over again. The laughs and the excitement.<\/p>\n
When we first arrived in the NWT on this visit we took the Liard Highway from the British Columbia side.\u00a0 Just so you know most explore the NWT arriving from the Alberta side – the paved highway side. But since when do we follow the herd in anything we do – we wanted to travel the less used route.<\/p>\n
The Liard Highway is beautiful, pure wilderness and a gravel highway. Not just any gravel highway but one with big pot holes and rib rattlers.\u00a0 Plus we arrived during and after a rain and hail storm.\u00a0 Wahoo.. Let the adventure begin! Nature was throwing it all at us.<\/p>\n
So we slogged, slid and bumped our way along the Liard Highway.\u00a0 Mud was flying five feet in the air. The \u201cFROG Travel PODS\u201d\u00a0 were doing the shimmy – dancing all over the road. Pot holes were filled with water and were very well hidden. Both Bro and I, on more than one occasion took one for the team as the pods and jeeps got some air time.<\/p>\n
Reaching Fort Liard ( a small community on the corner of the Liard\u00a0 and Petitot Rivers.) was a blessing in disguise as fuel was low and our rumps were sore.\u00a0 Plus stretching the legs is always a good thing to do on road trips as we still had hundreds of kilometres to go.<\/p>\n
we stayed for a few and did some reaching around Fort Liard and then we gased up again and jumped right back in the saddle. Hit the road Jack we did – sloshing, swishing, sliding and crunching the whole way. We were like kids in a mud paddle.\u00a0 Cannot say the same for the oncoming vehicles which roarded by washing up\u00a0 waves of flying mud hitting our windhhields with a “thunk”.<\/p>\n
By the time we reached Checkpoint ( a major rest stop at the junction of the Liard Hwy and Hwy #1) Bro noticed under inches of dripping mud that Moi had suffered a casualty.. My trailer was limping, I had a NWT flat tire\u2026 It was so muddy I did not even notice until we stopped at Checkpoint.<\/p>\n
Well.. we laughed and limped to the side of the highway. We hummed and hawed realizing the\u00a0 next gas station was in Fort Simpson. A 59 kilometre drive and a ferry ride crossing\u00a0 the Mackenzie River. The decision was made – I set up some pylons and flicked on the flashers and pulled out a good book well Bro head into town to do some swift talking for a spare tire.<\/p>\n
In case you have not figured it out yet.. The spare on the trailer was also damaged from a previous adventure and not yet repaired\u2026 not smooth on my part.. Oh well.. you learn eh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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