Subaru Crosstrek and John Adventure to the Arctic

I think it was hard for everybody to wrap their head around. You're going to the Arctic Ocean. How are you going to get to the Arctic Ocean? Well, you can drive on a road all the way up there now. My name is John, and I have a 2024 Crosstrek Wilderness that I'm going to drive from here, eventually, through a couple of detours, up to Tuktoyaktuk and the Northwest Territories. Well, I've been thinking about this for quite a while. I knew there was a highway from Dawson City up to Inuvik, called the Dempster Highway. Most of the journey, once I get up to Dawson City, will be on rough, slippery road. It's notoriously hard on tires, so that's one thing I've got is a full-size spare tire that Justin has supplied me. They have washouts on the road all the time, so you may be stuck in one place for a couple of days, and no place more comfortable than my Crosstrek. So, same thing with Tuktoyaktuk. The road from Inuvik up to Tuktoyaktuk was washed out at the beginning of the summer, and it took a couple of days for them to fix that up, so it's going to be sort of an ongoing thing. But one of the main things is the time involved. I don't think people realize just how big Canada is. And just to drive, say, from Peterborough to Dryden is a two-day drive just to get out of Ontario. And for me to get from Dryden up to Dawson City is going to be a four- or five-day drive. And then it's another two-day drive from Dawson City up to Tuktoyaktuk. There's a lot of driving involved, and fortunately, the Crosstrek is a very comfortable car to drive. And with the technology on it, it can almost drive itself sometimes, which is kind of freaky because I've never had a vehicle like this before. It keeps you in the lane and warns you about leaving the lane and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of interesting, and it's nice to be able to click that on every so often and just sort of relax a little bit more. Well, I hadn't even really considered rooftop tenting until I got the car, and so I got looking into them, and there's so many different kinds of them. And the one thing I noticed was that the bigger ones can really affect how the vehicle drives. And the one that I've got doesn't even weigh 100 pounds, and I drove back with it from Mississauga the other day. And I think I could drive as fast with it on the roof as I can with my kayaks on the roof, so that's saying something. You can see it folds down flat, and it's a triangle when it's elevated, and there's a ton of room in it. It doesn't really look like it has enough room, but it would sleep too quite comfortably. But yes, I want to document the trip up there and what I see. I'm sure it's going to be incredible.