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Nerdy Stuff
Here are some nerdy bits and bobs about our trip. To quote an earlier motto of
the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda: "If you don't count, you don't count".
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Running Totals
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Distance, km
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Time, hr:min
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Average speed, km/hr
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Climbed, m
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Days
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Driven
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14,397.2
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186:25
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77.23
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Driven Rob
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7,167.3
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96:27
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74.31
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Driven Hild
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7,171.3
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88:43
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80.83
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Walked
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312.75
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12,063
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Cycled
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26.3
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02:25 w/lunch
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Days away from my bed,
office desk and chair!
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55
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Below is one chart showing our cumulative driving distance and how we
did share-and-share-alike the driving, almost perfectly!
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. Our explanation for why Hild drove
faster than Rob was that she took the morning-driving-shift when we were typically on
the fast roads, while Rob had to drive the evening-shift when we arrived at our destination
in towns and cities... or maybe Hild just drives fast?!
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In the chart below, we can see that our walking was spread evenly across the whole trip,
with a few lazy billable-hour-days in between. We hiked more than 7 marathons,
and climbed higher than Mount Everest. A lot of huffing and puffing, for sure!
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Our hikes brought us often quite high above the sea level because Hild kept
finding more stairs and hills to walk. The chart below shows where we found the
heights in each province:
- Manitoba: 685 m hiking the Brulé Trail in Riding Mountain National Park (9th May)
- Saskatchewan: 917 m hiking the Valley of the 1,000 Devils in Grasslands National Park (12th June)
- Alberta 1st: 2,135 m hiking to Lake Agnes near Lake Louise (6th June)
- Alberta 2nd: 1,577 m hiking to Athabasca Lookout (15th May)
- British Columbia: 1,197 m hiking to the Broken Bridge in Revelstoke (4th June)
- Ontario: 358 m walking around downtown Fort Frances narrowly beating Thunder Bay (19th June and 4th May)
- Quebec: 358 m walking around downtown Val-d'Or (24th June)
Our two lowest-reaching hikes were:
- British Columbia: Joined Vivian in scaling the 18 metre-high Richmond Hill or Bridge #2 as it is the highest point in Richmond (24th May)
- British Columbia: Wandering around Protection Island off the coast of Nanaimo (30th May)
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The chart on the left shows that we spent most of our money on
accommodation (since we didn't want to sleep in a tent). Petrol for
Mary Jane didn't eat up as much of our budget as might have been feared.
The answer lies in a combination of Mary Jane's excellent fuel consumption and lower
prices in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Petrol prices varied between C$1.55 per litre to C$2.25. A happy average of C$1.96 with
a standard deviation of 0.18.
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Snusmumrikken has worked very hard the entire trip. He worked harder
on days when the hotel internet was poor or non-existant.
Snus did get some time off when we had no mobile coverage such
as long stretches of roads in Ontario, mountain areas of British Columbia,
and in Grasslands National Park. He deserved some time off.
The charts below indicate that we put alot of MBs/day through Snus
in:
- Quebec 21% of the MBs on 5% of the days (uncooperative hotel internet)
- Manitoba 20% of the MBs on 11% of the days (no hotel internet in Riding Mountain + Rob's meeting)
While we used him less in:
- British Columbia 22% of the MBs on 36% of the days (used hotel internet more)
- Alberta 10% of the MBs on 15% of the days (used hotel internet more)
- Saskatchewan 10% of the MBs on 15% of the days (no mobile coverage in Grasslands National Park)
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Species Spotted:
| Sum all Species | 84 |
| Wild vs Tame | 72 vs 12 |
| Mammal | 33 |
| Bird | 30 |
| Fish | 2 |
| Insect | 11 |
| Crustacean | 3 |
| Reptile | 2 |
| Invertebrate | 3 |
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Some rules about spotting species:
- Must be alive
- Must be standing still (exemption: bald eagle, whale, sea otters)
- Use generic "fish" or "whale" etc. until an expert can confirm
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Things we should have brought:
- Fly netting to block the cabin door. We had only brought personal fly netting for our heads.
- Extension cord so one can charge iPad/phone while sitting in comfy sofa or lying in warm bed
- Coins for laundry machines
- 5 and 10 dollar bills to tip hotel cleaning staff
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Things we could have left a home:
- Snow chains for the car - although we had snow near Jasper and again near Kamloops
- Shovel - which we had planned to use both for snow and for digging drainage ditches if our tent site was overrun by rain
- Tent - which was always our Plan "F" if we could find nowhere else to sleep
- Air mattress - part of our Plan "F"
- First aid kit - except band-aids, Savlon, and head ache tablets
- Emergency triangle and jumper cables and booster battery
- Head net - when mosquitos attack and spray is not enough
- Compass - for when paper- and electronic maps failed us
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Things we could do next time we come by:
Thunder Bay:
- Fort William Historical Park
- Mount McKay for the hiking and view
- Canadian Lakehead Exhibition if there is a fun event on
- An actual sauna session at Kangas Sauna
- Cardamom buns (korvapuusti) and loaf (pulla) from Current River Finish Bakery
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Wawa:
- Pukaskwa hiking trails
- The original Giant Wawa Goose
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Kenora-Thunder Bay:
- "The Muse" Lake of the Woods Museum
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Moose Jaw:
- Learn more about why it is Canada's most notorious town
- Learn more about Rosie Dale, an owner of a brothel banished from the city, who trained her unmanned horses to come into to town and pick up customers!
- Walk around town for more photos of historical buildings
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Loreburn:
- Go visit Green Valley Lutheran Church (Click Here)
- Go visit the grave sites of Sharon's ancestors (Click Here)
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Riding Mountain:
- The bisons
- Grey Owl's Cabin from Brulé trail-head
- Eastern excarpment trails
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Things we could do on our next road trip:
Eastern Canada:
- Meetings across Canada: we have held meetings in the far west and geographical
middle of Canada - need to hold one on Newfoundland to complete the
set.... Can anyone think of a reason to go to St John's?
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