Cross Canada RV Trip Toronto To Vancouver Day One 2019

Every now and then we have a bright idea, don't we team? We do. And we're always looking for travel bargains, aren't we? We certainly are. And I found one, and it was a few weeks ago. It seemed like a very easy, great deal. Something we couldn't pass up, but now the moment of truth has arrived. And what do we do, go and do? We have done a relocation RV from Toronto to Vancouver. It looked a lot easier in the brochure when we saw this monster. So this is our home from home for the next 14 nights. And we're going to drive it from Toronto to Vancouver. So the only thing we need to figure out, team, is which way is Vancouver? I'm kind of leaning to the opinion it's that way. And I was thinking, Norm, that it's that way. So what do you think? Either we can figure it out one way or another. Either we can rely on GPS or we can get an old-fashioned map out and hopefully we go in the right direction. So I hope you join us for our mammoth Canadian road trip, Toronto to Vancouver, 14 nights. Come with us and have a tour. It's based on a Ford E450. It's a 6.8 litre engine, so it has plenty of oomph. And that's sleeping for four, possibly six people. And it's just about four metres tall, so it takes a little bit of getting used to. But it drives just like a car. Hi, team. It looks like we're not in Portugal. No, we're not. So where are we today, team? We are in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. And what are we doing in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada? We have stopped to come and see the big nickel. Wow, that sounds good. Well, let's go check it out. So what I'm holding here is a little nickel. And what we have come to see is a big nickel. And that's a reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel, a five cent coin. And it commemorates the mining of nickel in Canada, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. This is the reverse of the big nickel coin. And as you can see, the monarch for Great Britain, Canada, was featured on the reverse of this 1951 reproduction of a Canadian nickel, five cent coin. And what you can see in the background is the super stack at Sudbury. It was the largest chimney in the country of Canada and the second largest freestanding chimney in the world. It was designed to raise the emissions high enough that it wouldn't damage the environment and send the pollutants high into the sky. Luckily, they've stopped using that. They have new technologies for scrubbing the pollutants. And we no longer have to worry about the environment getting damaged from the nickel smelting process. This is the super stack. Here we are, coming into the entrance of the Dynamic Earth Museum in Sudbury. To get out of the cold. Yeah, look at this, look at this cool one. Yeah. Wow. We can get all the big nickels. What are we doing, getting postcards? We're getting postcards so that we can send them to the grandkids. All right. Oh, and look at this one. It's got the perfect big nickel on it. Yeah, now do it. Perfect. Well, here we are. Hike along our first lake in Northern Ontario. Really impressed to still see the ice on it. This is late April and hey, it's still frozen. Although today is turning out to be a really beautiful day with blue skies and it is actually really quite warm here. It is. Yeah, we've ditched the winter coats, haven't we? We have. And we've got sunglasses on so you can tell it's warmer. And we just put sweaters on because we're close to the water where the there's still a bit of ice, so it's feeling a bit cold. It is. Or cooler. Yeah, we can show. This is what we're seeing here. Isn't that just beautiful? And this is very typical of a lake in Canada. And we're so blessed to have absolutely thousands of these. Yeah, and you can see all the lakeside cottages. So where are we now, team? We are in Echo Bay. And what are we here for? We're at the home of the loonie. What is the loonie? The loonie, I think, is the Canadian dollar. Yeah, it's the one dollar coin. And on the reverse, it has a loon, a loon bird. So now everybody calls it the loonie. And here we are in Echo Bay, just outside of Sault Ste. Marie. With the biggest loonie I've ever seen. So here you go. Wow, just take a look at that. And it was designed by a local artist. Depicts the 1987 Canadian dollar. There's the reverse side showing Queen Elizabeth II. On the reverse side, the gigantic Canadian loonie in Echo Bay, northern Ontario.