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Newfoundland
- “Lloyd Adams is “on the light side of 77,” and when I met him, he and his wife, Audrey, were celebrating their 48th wedding anniversary.”
- “You get to Rose Blanche by turning right instead of left when you leave the ferry at Port aux Basques”
- Dipping the wheels into the Atlantic to start the journey at Petty Harbour, NL
- Septic tanks near Port-aux-Basques Yes, they really are septic tanks. And no, I didn’t check if they were empty.
- “I walked down an overgrown path and heard voices. It was Austin Bennett chatting with his lobsterman friend Wayne Spencer.”
- “I began my drive with the Camaro’s wheels in the Atlantic Ocean, dipping into the water on a wharf at Petty Harbour, just south of Cape Spear, the most easterly point in Canada.”
- Lloyd Adams surveying the Trans-Canada in the 1950s
- ““Once you’re into the rhythm and your legs have adjusted, it’s a great way to travel.” His friend Will agreed: “I’ve never been east of Quebec City. I didn’t expect to see such differences between the provinces.”
- “Here in former-premier Joey Smallwood’s hometown, the man seems honoured with the same level of reverence that North Koreans offer their late Dear Leaders.”
- Mark Richardson in the Chevy Camaro outside the Mile One Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
- “Michelle Higgins also doesn’t recall seeing a moose recently, though she surely did early last month when she was driving in the evening from her home at Norris Arm to work at Gander. “
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Alberta
- “Author Edward McCourt described his 1963 drive along it, in his book The Road Across Canada, as “an endless succession of iron-surfaced washboard, gaping pot-holes, and naked rock — a shoulder-twisting, neck-snapping, dust-shrouded horror.” “
British Columbia
- The Camaro dips its wheels into the Pacific in Victoria
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