Introduction to our 2018 trip


In December 2015 we came up with this idea of traveling across Canada with our 2 kids in the Festiva with a camping trailer. The original plan was to build the trailer during the summer, fix up my red Festiva that winter and leave spring 2017. I ended up picking a very time consuming method of building the trailer and didn't finish that summer. When it came time to work on the car I realized it was too rusty to be worth the effort required and had to buy another one. It took a while to find a rust free Festiva in Alberta and I didn't have time to finish it by the spring either. I worked on the trailer all summer 2017 and the car most of the winter, now its spring 2018 and we are rushing to finish both the car and the trailer. Hopefully they will both be ready to go Monday June 4!

We hope to visit with people we know along the way: family, old friends, trailer building enthusiasts that have helped me on this project, festiva enthusiasts that helped me with the car. If you would like to see us/our car/our trailer and chat for a few minutes or hours that would be great! If you want to offer us a place to shower and fill our water containers that would be awesome too! Send myself or my wife a message and we will try to arrange it with you. We have a pretty good idea of when we will be in certain areas, but traveling this far with 2 small kids may end up being less predictable than we are hoping.

The photos below are our basic planned route but I couldn't set enough points on google maps to make it exact. If you're on or near it let us know. If you don't have time for a visit but have suggestions of what we should see that would be great as well!

We hope to leave June 4, 2018, be in Houston and Smithers area before the end of the week, Prince Rupert around the 17th, getting into the Yukon on the 21st, Alaska the 27th, take the top of the world highway into Dawson and then come back down to Kananaskis in Alberta for a festiva meet at Wedge Pond July 14, into Saskatchewan the 16th, and Manitoba the 21st, Ontario July 27. We have not planned dates too specifically after that, but you can see in the photos where we plan to go.

Originally we were going into the Northwest Territories, were going to see more of northern Newfoundland and Quebec, go down to Vancouver and south central B.C but had to cut those out of our plans because of time restraints.
This should be an exciting and fun adventure for both the kids and us. Canada is a big country with lots to see, do and learn. 




This was a family photo we took in the spring of 2016 shortly after we started work on the trailer.


We took this family photo today! Shawn is 4 1/2 and Joshua turned 3 a few days ago. 


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