2014 Fall Road Trip Day 2.

I Spent the morning with my sister and her kids, farmers market, few kid games, trampoline etc. nice relaxed morning before hitting the road around 1 in the afternoon. 

Back on the Highway! 

Little cloudy of a morning, but good for a drive. (What day isn't though right?)

View's through this area very different from the Rockies, reminds me a lot of italy actually and well makes sense since its BC's wine country. (some cool wineries there as well) and I am loving the new increased speed limits though! Makes a big difference really and well proven to be safer. More consistent speed of cars on the highway = less accidents. Wish Alberta would smarten up.

Making Good time! 

Cresting over the Valley with more great views! 

Morning coffee kicked in. Time for a quick stop and a picture haha

Clouds started to clear up, and it was turning out to be a great day!

Blue Sky!! 

Ok maybe not, but still great driving weather, no sun in the eyes, cool fall temps - perfect really.

And of course, once you get closer to the coast what do you get? Yeaa rain, always with the rain.

Enroute to HPA Motorsports and there was this...

Silly Volkswagen

Not exactly sure what he was doing up there haha, but he was just getting out of his car when I passed. Maybe avoided an accident? Not sure. But had a nice visit at HPA, pucked up yet another puck mount.. This time for a guy in South Africa with a bad as S3 (3 door) on air... Will dig up pictures. But he was coming to USA for H20i so figured we could help him out, I pick up the mount, drop it off with buddy in Bellingham and he shipped it out east to our friend on the coast going to h2oi, the power of the A3 group haha.

Obligatory bridge shot arriving to Vancouver.

This is pretty much the end of Day 2 for driving anyways!

Approx. Distance = 440km

Trip Total = 1,280km

Enjoyed the rest of the day in Van with the girlfriend, had dinner etc nothing to crazy as we were hitting the ferry to Vancouver Island at 7am and wanted to be there nice and early to make sure we got on. (BC ferries can get pretty busy apparently)

Cheers!!

Ponto

It's Alive!!! - Road Trip Resurrection of Blog!

Holy smokes its been awhile and then some! Well time to fire this old girl back up. For something new this time, travel journal! I love my road trips and traveling so why not share right? 

My girlfriend Melissa (as of 2 years and a bit now) has been living in Vancouver taking Dental Hygiene for the past 9 months so it has provided me with a number of road trips out that way which I am truly grateful for!

So here we go, the most recent one. Just got back 2 days ago.

Day 1...

We have been swamped at work lately so after getting in at 6am working til 5pm it was time to hit the road!

Full tank of gas and car loaded I was on the road, first up massive overpass going in on the south side of the city. It was easier to build the overpass, then realign the highway under it. Will be tying into one of our developments to the west after. 

41 Avenue Overpass being constructed South of Edmonton! 

I love being on the open road, feels so nice and relaxing - can just get away from it all as the miles disappear under my feet. Even better with this in front of me!

It was a perfect day to be on the highway, traffic was decent nothing to crazy so I made some pretty good time. Got to enjoy a nice sunset along the way as well! But after about 3 hours of driving, the straight highway does tend to get very boring!

So Straight.....

Love the clouds and sky we get in Alberta, always changing! 

Always a fun shot to get, hand out the window and snap away - Melissa hates when I do this. 

Amazing shot of the sun breaking through the tree's, Was very lucky to get this shot while driving down the highway! 

From here I continued on past Calgary into the rockies and the darkness, nightfall comes so much quicker now that it did just a few short weeks ago! The driving continued til around 1:00am local time (2:00am depature time) when I arrived at my sisters in Vernon for my first stopping point! It was a long drive, which I have done many a few times, but still enjoy each even if it does get a little tiring near the end! 

Into the darkness! Thank goodness for HID's

Suppose to finish off the day 1 post I should provide some update, life has been incredible these last few years, feels like time is flying by - which is kinda scary in itself. But exciting at the same time. I have such amazing people around me, friends, family and a wonderful girlfriend. I couldn't be happier. Hope you all enjoi my new travel journal posts moving forward! Day 2 to follow.

Day 1 Total Distance Approx. 840km! 

 Enjoi the drive.