Rob-n-Hild, oot and aboot eh? Sorry - 2022
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Val-d'Or - Ottawa (414km, driving time 5 hours, max elevation 428) 
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On this, the final day of our epic road-trip, we drove from Val-d'Or to Ottawa.
The view continued with lakes, lakes, islands, forest, forest, lakes etc.
Beautiful and so many options on where to stop. We ended up choosing Quinn Creek Falls.
Timing was right and we had the exact amount of food left for one more of our standard
picnics. Yes, almost the same thing we have eaten every picnic for 55 days - as pointed out by
an exasperated reader in Florida! We did however make some celebratory pancakes. Final meal of the
trip and all. Yum.
It should be noted that this is not only the last picnic, but it is also the first picnic where mosquitos and deer flies were present and bothersome. We are truly lucky to have travelled when it was largely too cold for these creatures to hassle us. "Yeah" to travelling in the shoulder-season: May and early June. |
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| After having pigged out on pancakes it was time for one last hike to work it off. We did a loop along and across Quinn Creek Falls. It is indeed a beautiful creek, and wouldn't you know it: Hild had found more stairs for us to climb. Typical! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As we drove on to Ottawa, we realized that we were pretty close to having
driven exactly the same number of kilometres. Nerdiness took over and we tried to
do the math and switch drivers to get as close as possible to 50/50 driving-load.
In the end we did't quite manage to split it perfectly - possibly because Mary Jane
and Max do not measure the exact same distances. That's our excuse anyway: blame errors
on technology. There is no operator-error here...
So bottom line after 55 days on the road: Of our total 14,397.2 km, Hild drove 7,171.3 and Rob drove 7,167.3! We were 2 km off for each of us, which is pretty good (0.01% error). Nerd-alert (see more on the Nerdy Page). |
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Gradually we started seeing familiar places along the road: Maniwaki, Wakefield, Gatineau Park,
and finally with 4 km to go they put up one road sign for Ottawa. We were welcomed home to our fellow 1 million
residents, the building site across the road from us (with rather slow progress while we have been away),
and then we were home!
In our apartment we were welcomed by Grogu (baby Yoda) who had made a "Welcome Home" sign with JR's help. Thank you so much! It made our day. |
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Coming up: That's it! Nothing more to report, however we will go back through our musings to correct typos, factual errors, and add some omitted bits here and there. Hope others enjoy reading about our trip. Now we have documented it so that, in a few months when we have forgotten details, we can return here to remind ourselves of all the fun we had - oot and aboot in Canada! | Start | Nerdy | The Largest... | Ornaments | Go To Previous Day |
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May/June 2022