On The Road

It's been a while, and since my last post a lot happened. I don't even know where to begin, my last days in Whistler were quite.. hm.. (I can't seem to find a word here to describe it). Somewhere between putting a piercing on, visiting Vancouver with my friends, gettin' drunk and being pulled over by the cops twice, I just realized how happy I was there and how much I liked my friends. I didn't expect to get THAT attached to anyone there though. Leaving Whistler was one of the hardest things I've ever done..

My plans to hit the road on May 1st had to be changed, and I ended up leaving Whistler 2 days behind schedule. Surprisingly, I was more than glad about that. I said my goodbyes, put my stuff in the trunk, started the car and against my will I drove away, secretly hoping for something else to go wrong forcing me to go back, but nothing happened. We headed towards Pemberton direction and made it to Lillooet and Kamloops on the first day, driving only 330km. We parked in a gas station along the road, still in Kamloops and slept in the car. It was freezin' and I didn't get much sleep. We woke up, took a shower, had breakfast and left around 7am, headin' to Jasper, as suggested by some lady we met at the gas station. Jasper was quite boring, so after a while we left and went to Athabasca Falls, which was good and really funny. We decided to go to Lake Louise, but before we get there, Chris spotted a bear along the road, so we stopped and tried to get as closer as possible, was so cool! We made it to Lake Louise in the end of the afternoon. I was really pissed to find out that the stupid lake was still frozen. We were so bored that we broke into Fairmont Hotel,went to the 6th floor and did a stupid video about it. It was kinda funny. We moved to Bannf afterwards and slept in a hostel. I really needed some quality sleep after driving for 10 hours (stops included), which means 784km. The next day we walked the whole town (as if it was big hahaha) and stopped by Canmore, a city 30km away from Banff. We didn't find anything reallyyyyyy interesting over there so we went back to the highway and made it to Calgary. Hm.. what's to say about Calgary? It's a city just like any other, with lots of stores, restaurants and of course, where it's really hard to find a place to park for free. We spent the night in the car again, in another gas station and left in the morning headin' to Saskatoon instead of Regina, what would have been probably easier, since there's no highway to Saskatoon. The driving was boring, with straight road all the way, which forced me to stop and get lots of coffee :) Before we get to Saskatoon we stopped by Drumheller, a bizarre town who claims to have the world's largest dinosaur! It was really funny to see plastic dinosaurs all over the streets and corners! It's SO ridiculous that you just can't stop laughin'!! We took some pictures and drove away to Saskatoon, which was a quite nice city. Spent another night in the car, parked in another gas station and woke up this morning feelin' like shit, since I didn't get much sleep.. Guess I can blame it on the cold weather. Right now we're in Regina City, headin' to Winnipeg.. we stopped here to check the car, but it would take the whole day and it would be quite expensive to fix whatever is wrong with it. It seems the brakes are not so good and the wheel and tires are kinda weird too, but if we made it here, we can make it to the next city as well. From now on it's goin' to get really boring since there's not a lot to see in the middle of Canada, but I'm sure we're goin' to find stupid things to do and strange little towns to stop by. I'm having a really great time and I have so many funny stories to tell. It's a real shame that I'm not able to post here as often as I wish, and even worse, that I don't have much time to really tell how it has been like and what happened until now. To read it like this must sound not quite exciting, but it has been truly amazing so far. I wish I had time to explain more and share my thoughts with whoever is readin' this right now.

Anyway.. greetings from the road!! \o/