Trip of a Lifetime - Alaska, here we come!
We kicked off the 5th and last week of our trip with a more relaxed, sightseeing type of day, so after having a continental breakfast at the motel in Red Deer, we headed south on AB2 to the junction with AB42 and then took the backroads into Drumheller.
The countryside in this part of the world offers varying landscapes, from lush farmland to barren rocks – which form part of the Canadian Badlands.
We took a neat little cable ferry (the Bleriot Ferry) across the Red Deer River and then rode along Horsethief Canyon before coming to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Although we decided not to go inside the museum, we did take a 1 km tour of their Interpretive Trail.
After making a stop at the Timmie’s in Drumheller, we then headed out to go see Horseshoe Canyon and then back down AB10 to go see the HooDoos. On the return trip
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Day 29 – Red Deer, AB to Drumheller, AB
July 12, 2019
We kicked off the 5th and last week of our trip with a more relaxed, sightseeing type of day, so after having a continental breakfast at the motel in Red Deer, we headed south on AB2 to the junction with AB42 and then took the backroads into Drumheller.
The countryside in this part of the world offers varying landscapes, from lush farmland to barren rocks – which form part of the Canadian Badlands.
We took a neat little cable ferry (the Bleriot Ferry) across the Red Deer River and then rode along Horsethief Canyon before coming to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Although we decided not to go inside the museum, we did take a 1 km tour of their Interpretive Trail.
After making a stop at the Timmie’s in Drumheller, we then headed out to go see Horseshoe Canyon and then back down AB10 to go see the HooDoos. On the return trip
back to Drumheller, we stopped off to see the Rosedale Suspension Bridge and the remnants of one of the many mines that were present at one time.
For lunch, we rode on AB10X, over 9 of the 11 bridges that take you all the way to the hamlet of 11 Bridges, to the ghost town of Wayne, AB and the Last Chance Salloon for lunch.
We then made our way back into Drumheller and stopped off to see the World’s Largest Dinosaur statue, before checking into our motel for the night, The Badlands Motel. We rode back into town to meet up with our nephew Dustin and CarolAnn and Xander at Vintage Taphouse & Grill.
For the day, we logged a total of 269 kms, including a trip back into town for dinner, for a total to date on the trip of 14,381 km
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Pre-Trip Stuff
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Planned Trip routing
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Day 1 - St Thomas. ON to St Ignace, MI
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Day 2 - St Ignace, MI to Copper Harbor, MI
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Day 3 - Copper Harbor, MI to Grand Rapids, MN
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Day 4 - Grand Rapids, MN to Minot, ND
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Day 5 - Minot, ND to Malta, MT
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Day 6 - Malta, MT to Choteau, MT
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Day 7 - Choteau, MT to Mossleigh, AB
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Day 8 - Mossleigh, AB to Canmore, AB
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Day 9 - Canmore, AB to Hinton, AB
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Day 10 - Hinton, AB to Dawson Creek, BC
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Day 11 - Dawson Creek, BC to Fort Nelson, BC
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Day 12 - Fort Nelson, BC to Watson Lake, YT
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Day 13 - Watson Lake, YT to Whitehorse, YR
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Day 14 – Whitehorse, YT to Dawson City, YT
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Day 15 – Dawson City, YT to Tok, AK
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Day 16 – Tok, AK to Valdez, AK
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Day 17 – Valdez, AK to Whittier, AK
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Day 18 - Whittier, AK to Homer, AK
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Day 19 – Homer, AK to Bird Creek, AK
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Day 20 – Bird Creek, AK to Palmer, AK
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Day 21 - Palmer, AK to Anderson, AK
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Day 22 - Anderson, AK to Tok, AK
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Day 23 - Tok, AK to Whitehorse, YT
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Day 24 - Whitehorse, YT to Dease Lake, BC
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Day 25 - Dease Lake, BC to New Hazelton, BC
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Day 26 - New Hazelton, BC to Prince George, BC
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Day 27 - Prince George, BC to Entwistle, AB
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Day 28 – Entwistle, AB to Red Deer, AB
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Day 29 – Red Deer, AB to Drumheller, AB
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Day 30 - Drumheller, AB to Regina, SK
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Day 31 - Regina, SK to Steinbach, MB
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Day 32 - Steinbach, MB to Duluth, MN
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Day 33 – Duluth, MN to Sturgeon Bay, WI
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Day 34 – Sturgeon Bay, WI to St Ignace, MI
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Day 35 – St Ignace, MI to St Thomas, ON
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The Final Chapter
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