Oh Canada! 2024 notes

After much cogitation, I've decided to direct you to my Substack for the weekly photographic summaries of my Oh Canada road trip. (Link)
I will add a Linky table of contents in another post after I finish them all on October 30.
I am concurrently working on an analog journal/ scrapbook, which I intend to post for paying subscribers on Substack.

Impatient? Go to the posts here!
or
The FindPenguins diary here

Trip artwork, [currently altered photos] will show up below as I get them archived.
It's possible to search by typing in a keyword, such as state/ province, landscape feature (such as "mountain"), etc.

Safe travels!

Cross Canada (and Diagonally Home) Road Trip Done!

This is my route as logged into the Find Penguins app. (I’m still editing it, adding more photos). Here’s the link to view the entries.

7870 miles, 2 days north, 7 days across Canada, [8 days doing non road trip activites], 6 days westbound.

Next, I will work on a more detailed analog travel journal, with maps and ephemera.

I’ll use a format similar to journals I created in 2014 and 2009. (Did I make one in 2019? Not sure!) I blogged the 2014 trip and book in my Patreon. (In reverse order, link to first post) For 2024, I’ll be blogging my journey on several sites, as an experiment.

Years ago, I had the grand idea to circumnavigate Canada, the way I did the US in 2014. I was going to include Alaska, the one US state I have yet to visit.

Looking at that map this January kind of freaked me out. I couldn’t wrap my head around doing the whole route. I scaled it down to something more manageable, just the part between Sumas, BC (north of Bellingham, WA) across to the Thousand Islands border crossing (north of Watertown, NY). And I pretty much avoided big cities (Vancouver BC, Toronto ONT).

Every week, I’ll go into detail about each day [except the 8 days in upstate NY].

While you wait for next week’s first installment - Los Angeles to Weed, CA - get previews on FindPenguins.

Most of My Road Trips, Stitched

It's been WAY too long since I've been on a road trip!

I'm happy to say that I'll be making a quick drive up to San Francisco this coming Saturday.
Woohoo!

One of my stuck-at-home projects was to start stitching all my road trips on a dish towel sized North American map. 

I worked up the map in Illustrator, using a Photoshopped denim scan and vector maps purchased from iStock. I had it printed by Spoonflower in cotton twill.

This is a work in progress.
I want to include my planned circumnavigation of Canada in 2024!

I am also still missing some past road trips - the ones where I didn't keep good records and am having trouble remembering where I went. In addition, I'm not including any trips to just San Francisco. Too many!

The trips inventory:

• fall 1974 one way [ow] not yet stitched
• summer 75 round trip [rt] not
• winter 75/76 rt not
• summer 76 rt not
• winter 76 ow not
• winter/spring rt 82 yellow
• fall 82 ow not
• winter 93 rt white
• summer 94 rt very dark indigo
• spring 95 rt lt green
• spring-fall 96 rt hot pink
• winter 96/97 rt light pink
• fall 99 rt not
• summer 2000 rt orange
• fall 09 rt rust
• spring 14 light blue
• summer 15 emerald
• summer/fall 21 rt tbd
• spring/summer 24 rt tbd

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