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I've been travelling for over 40 years - by thumb in my early days, by boots inside the Scouts, a Lambretta came next and after that my initially old banger followed by newer old bangers to the beaches on the Costa Brava.

My thumb, boots, bikes and bangers took me all more than Europe plus the UK ahead of acquiring that a charter flight to Spain on an old 'Connie' could get me towards the beaches and bars a whole lot quicker and enable more time to love the regional travel possibilities by horse and cart as well as the occasional bus and train.

'Go West and Prosper' seemed to become a superb thought so as an alternative to taking an eight hour flight I took an 8 day transatlantic crossing from Tilbury to Montreal on the Stephan Batory of Polish Ocean Lines making sure that jet lag did not difficulty my travel plans. Some years later I crossed the pond again on a ship but this time it was 5 occasions bigger and I travelled in style on the QE2 and dined in the Queen's Grill somewhat removed from my earlier experience. I very advise ocean voyages but can't see myself on among the modern cruise ships going from port to port with continual line-ups to obtain on and off to get t-shirts. On the other hand, I have performed 10 Windjammers and a Star Clipper cruise inside the Caribbean which had been all memorable (let's hope Windjammer Barefoot Cruises recover from their woes). But I digress.

I had read that Canada is really a spectacular nation, from sea to shining sea, and my entrance into the St. Lawrence River to Montreal and after that heading west in an old Econoline van in the Great Lakes, across the Prairies to the Rocky Mountains prior to ending up whale watching off of the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island was a trip of wonder to a bloke from London. Right now the scenery is still spectacular as well as the very best way to go continues to be by road so rent or acquire a car, motorhome or motorbike, take the train or tour bus but try to remember the maps, a fly rod, excellent boots and take your time.

My preferred element of Canada / USA for adventure travel must be Northern BC / Alaska, to hike the Chilkoot Trail within the methods from the goldseekers of 1898. The Northwest Territories to canoe the Nahannie River plus the Yukon to drive from Dawson City to Chicken, Alaska. If you just like the ottawa traveling packages and may put up using a handful of bugs, cast a fly and scale a couple of hills or drive on endless dirt roads sharing the space with moose, caribou, elk, bears and eagles, then these are the areas to place in your list. The pleasures and experiences in driving to Inuvik around the Dempster Highway or to Prudhoe Bay on the Dalton Highway or perhaps the Canol Road can only be felt by doing them. I'd have pointed out the Alaska Highway but now it really is a simple drive in contrast to the aforementioned.

Nowadays the expenses of driving these distances could mean that sharing the journey with others is necessary, but RVing or simply vanning and camping is a good strategy to see beyond the horizon. Some enroute adventures now require to be booked in advance whereas when I hiked Denali as well as the Chilkoot Pass it was just a case of turning up, registering with the local ranger workplace and heading on out. Just a little more forward organizing is required for today's traveller and expense considerations of lengthy flights or drives must somehow be countered with more cautious preparing. Within the days of affordable gas rates I would not even consider the driving or flying charges and have driven to Crucial West from the northwest coast, down the west coast towards the Baja and towards the west coast from New York. I when even flew my 1946 Fleet taildragger in the Pacific towards the Atlantic and back using around five gallons an hour of avgas. Just before the oil and credit crisis I drove from Rio de Janeiro to Lima, down to Tierra del Fuego and back to Rio covering more than 15,000 miles of spectacular scenery and with no consideration regarding the price of gas. South America must be in your itinerary as well! Some other memorable drives that might now require a mortgage with the gas firms involve London to the Nordkapp, Norway, Skippers Canyon in New Zealand along with the ottawa cheap long vacations from the far north of Australia plus the awesome coast of Western Australia stopping by at Monkey Mia and Wave Rock.