http://www.4yearswasted.com keeping in touch through a year of travel Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:54:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en      Due to the lack of time and the absence of internet connection, we haven’t been able to put up any posts since Pittsburgh. Here’s an update of our progress. The Pittsburgh game was awesome. They won against the flyers and we got to see Crosby score a sweet goal. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/04/17/back-home/   Last night we arrived at our campground near Washington, PA. We rented a cabin for a couple days. We needed a place to stay until the Penguins game tomorrow night. The cabin is quite cozy and the people here seem friendly. Last night we watched the game on a big ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/04/01/taking-it-easy/   The other day when we went to Wal-Mart, Danny and I noticed that they had some really good deals on food. We bought a massive sandwich for $5. We split it and couldn’t finish it for lunch. The left over’s served as a bedtime snack that night. We also bought ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/04/01/257/     Although there were no trolls we still had to pay ridiculous tolls. It seems as if we had to pay for every highway we drove on between Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. When we first stopped at a toll booth, there wasn’t anyone there to take our money. There was a sign ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/04/01/where-are-all-the-trolls/      Today Darce and I started off our day with a superstart breakfast.  The superstart breakfast sounds pretty bad ass but it’s only a continental breakfast at the Super 8 motel hahaha.  We checked out at 11 a.m. and needed something to do until the game which only started at 6 ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/30/a-super-day/   The Xcel Energy Center is the arena in St Paul where we watched Minnesota Wild vs Vancouver Canucks.  Minnesota played really good and Vancouver played poorly.  The end result of the game was Vancouver losing 4-0.  It was still fun to be there even though Vancouver lost. The arena is ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/28/a-wild-game/      After snacking down our continental breakfast, Darce and I headed to St Paul Minnesota.   St Paul is really nice. We spent a lot of time visiting it today.  We went to the Science Museum of Minnesota which was pretty cool.  It had a lot of exhibits but it also had ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/28/a-day-in-st-paul/ Last night we slept at a Super 8 in St-Cloud, Minnesota. With the tax, our room cost us 72$. That includes a free continental breakfast and free jus whenever you want. Danny was all over the free jus. He filled up his water bottle twice! Today he wants to fill ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/28/game-3-tonight/   Yesterday we said goodbye to Canada and hello to the States. It took us a while at the border. They made us get out of the truck, asked us questions and searched the truck. It took at least a half an hour. They didn’t find ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/28/hello-united-states/ For the first time on our road trip, I got pulled over by the cops. About 1 minute away from the Saskatchewan border I looked into my mirror to see a cop cruiser with its lights on. I should have sped up to cross the border and lose the cops ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/26/head-for-the-border/   This morning, after eating a bowl of cereal and saying goodbye to our four legged friend Jojo, we left Calgary and made our way towards Regina. Along the way we saw a few interesting things. The first cool thing was the world’s largest tepee, ok maybe ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/26/on-the-road-again/     Last night the Calgary Flames took on the Vancouver Canucks. Danny, Steph and I took the C-train to the game to avoid getting stuck in traffic near the Saddle Dome (arena). A few Calgary fans on the train got their beer taken away from the transit security. Haha, transit ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/26/calgary-flames/   Here are all the games we will be attending. The frist game ended in a 5-3 victory for Oilers Vs Wild.  http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/25/the-games/     Yesterday, Danny and I drove from Calgary to Edmonton to watch the first hockey game of our road trip. We arrived in Edmonton a few hours before the game and scored a free parking spot near the Rexall Place. The Edmonton Oilers took on the ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/25/1st-of-7/ Here is a map of the entire trip. Thats lots of driving!!    http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/24/map-of-our-entire-trip/   We’ve been in Calgary for about a week now. Our stay here has been great. I haven’t eaten this good in a long time. Our dinners this week compromised of a huge ham, a massive pork roast, T-bones steaks and salmon steaks cooked in with ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/24/visiting-the-cousin/   We got a new buddy for our way back home.  Paul won’t be alone now. The new buddy’s name is Phel. Phel is a little kangaroo with an Australian flag. Phels name comes from our friends Phil and Mel who gave him to us on our last day in Whistler. The ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/24/phel/   Once again, while driving, the weather was nice. We drove from Golden to Calgary. It took us about 3.5 hours. We stopped to take some pictures in Lake Louise. It’s cool that they have hockey rinks on the lake. It’s just too bad we didn’t have skates. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/20/lake-louise/    Our visit at Kicking Horse mountain resort was pretty awesome.  Labrecque, Darcey’s friend from university, brought us around and gave us a tour of the mountain.  The runs were steeper and different than what we are used to seeing in Whistler.  It was a really nice day, which gave ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/20/kicking-horse/       The drive from Whistler to Golden was just as we remembered it, pretty frigging sweet! The roads were nice. There were a few snow covered spots but no avalanches and we had my bad ass truck to keep us safe. Once in Golden we stayed at our friends, J-F and ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/20/golden-bc/    So far, my last week in Whistler has been awesome. I have to admit it, I will miss this place. Two of my last four working days were spent skiing on Blackcomb. On Wednesday, because it wasn’t busy in the warehouse, my boss let me go skiing pretty much all ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/15/happy-to-be-going-but-sad-to-be-leaving/                 Thursday night was pretty awesome!  I went to the Vancouver Canucks game with two guys from work.  Vancouver matched up against the Nashville Predators.  After the first 30 seconds of the 1st period I was scared a little bit since Nashville got a power play.  I wasn’t scared for long ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/08/canucks-game/ Since my contract as a seasonal worker here at Whistler-Blackcomb ends at the end of April, I had to find something to do in the spring before heading back to Ontario. That said, four Australians that live on our floor in staff housing and I planned a trip. This trip ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/05/spring-plans/  Darcey and I are heading back home the 17th of March. We only have like 2 weeks left in Whistler and that’s 8 working days each.  We have a whole road trip planned for the way back home. We will begin by driving to Golden, B.C. the first day. In ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/03/04/road-trip-back-home/   Last Monday, Shane, Nick and I went up on Whistler to do some skiing. It was a really nice day. Given that it was President Week in the States and Reading week here in Canada, the mountain was really busy. The line-ups to get up the mountain were ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/02/22/birthday-bbq/         This week we were lucky to have our good buddy Luc come visit us. Luc is moving to Tasmania for school and decided to spend a week in Whistler before leaving. He finally got to relax after working overtime every week at the mine for the past 5 months. We ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/02/15/luc%e2%80%99s-week-in-whistler/   If you had to chose the winner of a race down part of the Blackcomb Mountain and one person was on a toboggan, a second on a downhill bike and a third on an air-mattress, who would you chose to win? One night, while chilling in the lounge, we thought ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/02/06/who-would-win/     Last week Nick, John, Phil and I spent a few hours snowshoeing instead of skiing. I got back home early from work to find out that they we’re going snowshoeing. I quickly agreed to join them. We rented snowshoes ($10 each) and explored different trails. It was a ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/02/06/a-fun-change-from-just-skiing/      On January 26th, Australians celebrated Australia Day. This day proves to be quite popular in Whistler being that a third of people here are Australian. Up on the mountain the lift operators were dressed in 80’s retro and in the village it was party time. About 8 of us tried ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/02/06/australia-day/   Once a week, in the common room located on our floor, we have an event called the community kitchen. A lady comes over and shows us how to cook healthy meals. The food always turns out great. We are usually about 10 people who participate. The best part about this ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/23/community-kitchen/ The first time I ate a Beaver Tail was in Ottawa on the Rideau Canal. I have to admit, it was pretty good. A Beaver Tail is a pastry which they deep-fry and then add toppings. They are normally sweet. When we first got to whistler, we noticed that they ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/23/beaver-tails-in-whistler/ Here is a video clip of us hitting some jumps in the whistler park. http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/18/our-day-in-whistler-park/ The holidays here in whistler were awesome.  Mom, Kendra and Ma Tante Joce got here the 18th of December.  Mom and Ma Tante Joce left the 26th.   As for Kendra, she stayed till the 5th of January.  Jon McNeil got here on the 5th and stayed till the 12th.  Now ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/14/awesome-holidays-2/ Happy Birthday mom from all of us here in Whistler! Hope you have a great one. We love you and I think Paul summed it up perfectly when he wrote on his website, http://www.paulyblog.com/ “Today is my moms birthday.  My mom is simply amazing.  I know everyone always says that their ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/09/happy-birthday-mom/   The average snowfall in Whistler is 33 feet. Last year they got around 60 feet. That’s a lot of snow. It is unreal being here and watching it fall virtually every day. This past week we got over 4 feet of snow. The skiing was great. On Sunday it snowed ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/09/when-will-it-stop-snowing-and-does-it-ever-get-cold-in-whistler/     JMac’s visit started off as a good one. He arrived in whistler this past Saturday. Little did he know he was about to spend a lot less money than what he expected. Saturday night we went out looking for boots for him to buy. As I was lending ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/08/222/   A little late post to whish everyone a great new year. We had a lot of fun for New Year’s Eve. Had some drinks here in residence and then made our way to 18 below, a restaurant near our place. They had cheap drinks and good music. After a great ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/07/new-years-eve/     Christmas this year was truly different. Even though it was our first Christmas away from home, it was still a really good one. We got some visit from my mom, Nick’s mom and Danny’s girlfriend, Kendra. It was a full house in our little apartment. We had a lot of ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2008/01/07/x-mas-in-whistler/ House advisors Will and Kim hosted an iron chef challenge today in our floor 3 lounge in staff housing. The secret ingredient was perogies. There were a total of eight teams that created dishes involving perogies. There were three judges (other house advisors) and the dishes were judged in four ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/12/13/chefs-kwong-and-brunet-steal-the-show/     We are now used to the everyday life in whistler. It’s awesome! We all like our jobs but especially our days off. This week, both the Whistler peak and Blackcomb glacier opened for riding in the alpine. There are many bowls, fresh powder, wicked back country, off piste hiking ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/12/09/life-in-whistler/ I finally started my job. I am a parking host and I also have other duties such as shovelling, salting and a few other labour jobs. Today it snowed like 20-25 centimetres which means I was busy all day removing snow after my parking duty of the morning. I like ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/12/03/first-weekend-of-work/   It was a fast trip but it was really awesome. I got to Sudbury Saturday night just in time for Kendra’s Christmas formal. I got to dance with Kendra and drink with the guys, so it was a really fun night.  On Sunday, Mom came to ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/30/back-from-my-little-trip/ About 3 hours after deciding I wanted to try snowboarding I was in the lounge room in our staff housing assembling my new bindings on my new snowboard. Because I work amongst skiers and snowboarders all day and because many people switch from skiing to snowboarding, I wanted to give ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/29/spur-of-the-moment-purchase/ After two weeks of pretty intense training and after passing the lengthy provincial lift attendant exam, I started working as a lift attendant (lifty) for whistler-blackcomb a week ago. In the past week I’ve been working on both the Creekside gondola and the Emerald Express chair lift (both on whistler ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/29/i-love-my-job/ Hello everyone, I am Danny and Darcey's brother Paul. I am also Nick's cousin. I thought since the boys are awaiting the arrival of their high speed modem and aren't able to blog I would contribute to the site. This week I was one of many people ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/28/guest-blogger/ It was about quarter after seven Friday night and I started talking to Kendra online. I told her about my day and how it was frustrating that the guy that I am supposed to work for screwed up and now I have a week off before ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/24/on-my-way-to-sudbury-heck-ya/ I’ve been out on the mountain 5 out of the 6 days since its been open. Tuesday however was the first day on my new snowboard.  I fell enough times and one time I whipped out pretty hard. I feel on my but and knocked my head.  It was super ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/24/first-day-on-the-snowboard/   Finally this weekend we got to go skiing. Saturday morning hundreds of people lined up for the opening day of Whistler Mountain.  We were not expecting much because of the absence of snow down in the village. Once up the mountain we we’re amazed. The runs we’re really ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/18/hitting-the-slopes/     This is just a little blog to describe to you my little living area.  My room is pretty small but it’s at a prime location. I could walk about 1 to 2 minutes to a chair lift or ski down to the village which also has chair lifts and gondolas.  ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/15/geared-up-and-ready-to-go/   Ohhhhh the mountain is opening this weekend!!  We are really pumped and we will definitely post up some pics and blogs about our first day on the mountain. The village here is really nice and most of you are probably wondering what it looks like. Well we ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/15/whistler-opening-early-heck-ya/ Well mom I know it took a while, sorry! Haha but I finally have the picture of Darcey and I with the awesome shirts you made us. My mom sent us a package with Kendra for Halloween containing a bunch of candies and these funny but awesome shirts! ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/15/mommys-boys/ It is now official; we will be staying in whistler for the winter season. Earlier this week, it was confirmed that all three of us got the jobs which we applied for. We are pretty happy and at the same time, relieved. Nick’s first day of training was yesterday and mine ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/14/whistler-our-new-home/ It’s the week of the job fair so all of us have interviews this week. It kind of feels like exam time in university, there’s a little more stress in the air and a little less drinking. It’s a little more exciting than exam time mind you because everyone is ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/08/job-fair-and-bens-birthday/  Sunday we were pretty bored since we don’t have any snow yet, so we decided to go buy sports gambling tickets to make the hockey games more intense to watch. I got all my games right on my ticket and still had one game left to win on Monday. I ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/06/winning-ticket/ While watching TV last night in Danny’s room, Richard invited us to go hiking today. We were pretty pumped since we’ve been pretty bored lately. This morning we all woke up early and got ready but there was no sign of Richard, so we figured we weren’t going anymore. All ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/04/hiking-blackcomb/ Here are some Whistler facts found on their website: Mountain facts: - Average snowfall : 33 feet per year or 10 meters per year - Total terrain : 8,171 Acres - Trails : 200 plus - Number of lifts : 38 - Hourly lift capacity : 61,407 skiers per hour - Whistler top elevation : 2,182 meters - Blackcomb top elevation : 2,264 meters - Longest run ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/03/whistler-facts-for-the-curious/ Having been hung over most mornings since we got to Whistler, we decided to take it easy tonight and give our liver and wallets a little rest. Instead of going out and drinking tonight, we decided to go watch a movie at the cinema in the whistler village. The cinema ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/03/steve-carrell-and-dane-cook-disapoint/   Halloween was definitely a success this year. We started drinking in the lounge with people from our floor at around 3:30pm. After a few drinks we all went to put our costumes on and then drank some more. A few hours later, our lounge was full of people ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/11/01/superheros-in-whistler/ We spent last night in Vancouver because Kendra was flying from Vancouver to Toronto early this morning and because we wanted to load up on some food since it’s so expensive here in Whistler. We slept in yesterday because we went out the night before but still left for Vancouver in ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/28/night-in-vancouver/ After pre-drinking in our floor lounge with some Australian girls and some guys from both Ontario and Nova Scotia, we decided to go out to a bar called ‘crystal lounge’ in the village. The walk to the village from our staff housing is all downhill, which kind of hurts the ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/26/first-night-out-in-the-whistler-village/   Our first night in staff housing was pretty sweet. We got to whistler in the early afternoon yesterday, checked out the village (which is bigger than our campus in Ottawa), ate lunch, did some groceries, checked into our staff housing, etc. After unpacking, we went ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/25/first-night-in-staff-housing/ We’re heading for Whistler today. It’s about a 12 hour drive from Calgary to Whistler so we’re going to stop and sleep at a hotel in Kamloops tonight. We move into our staff housing tomorrow at 3pm. We would have liked to leave earlier today but the truck is in the ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/23/moving-to-whistler/    Yesterday at night Kendra and I were going to go out for dinner.  We went to take the C-train downtown but while we were on the train we noticed lots of Calgary Flame fans getting on the C-Train with their hockey jerseys on.  We realized that there was ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/23/supper-turned-into-flames-game/ The one and the only Kendra Luxmore arrived at the Calgary airport early yesterday morning. Luckily Dan and Darce were there visiting the airport at that same time and saw her. She’s on her reading week from the University of Laurentian, yeah, that’s right, reading week in October. Must be ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/21/first-visitor-or-should-i-say-groupie-haha/ We went to Banff yesterday for our interviews. Everything went well, we actually all got three interviews instead of two like mentioned in the last post. Although Dan and Darce had theirs scheduled in the afternoon, they were able to start their process at the same time as I did, ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/19/to-banff-or-not-to-banff-that-is-the-question/ We're headed to Banff tomorrow for our interviews at Sunshine. The latter are our first of three interviews in the mountains (big white and whistler-blackcomb are to follow in the weeks to come). I go first at 10:15am and Dan and Darce have theirs at 1pm and 1:15pm respectively. We'll be ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/17/interviews-tomorrow/ Dear valued readers, It has come to our attention that we have unwillingly failed to specify in the previous post that Jojo is only our new roommate while we are in Calgary because she is in fact Steph's. Our apologies, The Crew http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/15/memo/ We have a new roommate in Calgary. Her name is Jojo and she's three months and one week old. she's a Boston Terrier. She's not the best roommate just yet because she doesn't pick up after herself and makes messes everywhere, but i think she's got potential to become a ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/14/new-roommate/ Last night, after driving 13.5 hours and having to hold in my pee for hours before stopping, we made it to Calgary on time to catch the 2nd period of the Vancouver/Edmonton hockey game. Today marks the one month anniversary of our road trip. This past month has to be ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/14/one-month-and-still-not-broke/ Last night we decided to shorten our trip a little bit. Instead of sleeping in Butte, Montana tonight, we’re going to drive 13hrs straight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Calgary, Alberta. Arrived in Calgary, we will have driven 22hrs in two days. And by ‘we’ I definitely mean ‘Darce’. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/14/%e2%80%98i-can%e2%80%99t-feel-the-lower-part-of-my-body-due-to-csns-car-seat-numbness-syndrome%e2%80%99-by-nicholas-kwong/ There are two things that Darce did that really made Dan and I laugh. I’ll try to explain them to the best of my abilities but you might have had to be there in order for you to find them remotely as funny as we did. The first event was at ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/12/darce-cracking-us-up/ I know we’ve still got three states to see and two days left on our trip but to tell you the truth, the reason why I’m writing this post now is because I’m not expecting much from Utah, Idaho and Montana and because I need something to do on this ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/12/nicks-picks/ we still have to post more Las Vegas pictures as well as Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon pictures but since the internet is slow, it's late and we need our rest for our 10hr drive to salt lake city, Utah tomorrow, we will upload them tomorrow hopefully. Best regards and sorry ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/12/no-pictures-till-tomorrow/ Today we left Las Vegas and headed towards Arizona. Our first stop was at the Hoover Dam. I always wanted to see the Hoover Dam and I was super pumped when I saw it! It’s about 740 feet tall and the base of it is 660 feet wide. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/12/ohhh-dam-thats-big/ Las Vegas was awesome in August and was still awesome in October. After waking up to birds singing right over our tent, the hot sun shinning on our tarp and the dump truck emptying the trash next door at like 8am, we decided to go to the Las Vegas ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/11/las-vegas%e2%80%a6-i-think-it-means-%e2%80%98the-vegas%e2%80%99-in-spanish%e2%80%a6-haha/      We arrived in Vegas yesterday afternoon. We made our way through the traffic to our campground onthe main strip. The campground is nice. It has a pool; it is surrounded by palm trees and luckily for us, it has a couple tent sites. After setting up the tent, we made ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/10/fun-in-las-vegas/ We're having too much fun in Vegas and trying to do and see everything in the little time that we have so our website will not be updated till tomorrow or the day after in Utah. The boys http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/10/what-happens-in-vegas-stays-vegas-and-is-maybe-written-on-the-next-post/     It was sad to see California disappear in my rear view mirror as I drove towards Nevada. We had so much fun in the golden state that we could have stayed longer. The northern part of California amazed us with its gigantic trees. Swimming in the ocean and relaxing on ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/09/californias-in-my-rear-view-mirror/ This morning, for the first time of the road trip, we woke up to nice hot weather. We quickly ate a bowl of Eggo cereal with built in maple syrup that Nick picked out from the grocery store. Without showering, we left for Newport Beach. The ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/08/sunburnt-in-october/ Finally a day where we didn’t have to travel! This morning we crossed the street from our campground in Pascadero, California to find ourselves on the beach of the Pacific Ocean. We finally got the chance to enjoy the day and just relax. Usually we are travelling or rushed to ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/06/taking-a-break-in-santa-cruz/ The scenic route from Crescent City, California to Pascadero, California is amazing. The big trees are still everywhere but mostly on the left side of highway 101. On the right side lies the Pacific Ocean only meters from the road. In some areas, you are driving 5 feet from a ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/05/northern-to-central-california-could-have-been-better/    It’s almost 11:30am and we’re on our way to Pascadero, California (south of both San Francisco and San Jose) where we will be spending the next two nights. I’d like to dedicate this post to the unreal redwood trees we have driven by and camped beside in the ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/05/treemungus-def%e2%80%99n-pc%e2%80%99n-tremungguss-%e2%80%98massive-friggin%e2%80%99-trees%e2%80%99/   We left Cascade locks, Oregon this morning and we’re on our way to Crescent City, California. After sleeping in this morning due to the comfortable beds in our cabin and the peaceful sound of rain hitting the wooden shingles we were woken up by the train ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/04/californias-on-the-horizon/ It’s just after 5pm and we have just arrived at our campsite in Cascade Locks, Oregon (45 minutes east of Portland). We woke up in Burlington, Washington this morning and drove to Seattle, WA. Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour and went to visit the ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/03/in-the-snow-yesterday-in-the-rain-today-and-on-the-beach-tomorrow/   We just left Kelowna and it’s 1pm pacific time. According to Garmin, we’re scheduled to arrive in Burlington, Washington at 6pm where we will be camping for the night. Kelowna was in one word: ‘awesome’. We stayed at Dan’s friend Sylvie and her fiancé Andre’s for the night. They ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/02/dear-kelowna-will-you-marry-me/           The road trip from Calgary to Kelowna was awesome and the scenery unforgettable. It was raining and cloudy but it actually made it cool because we couldn’t see the mountain tops and we were driving through the clouds. We stopped in Golden and Revelstoke to check out the ski hills ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/10/01/talk-about-a-scenic-route/ We’ve been living at Steph’s house in Calgary for the last week and tomorrow morning we’re leaving for our two week road trip/camping trip through the 8 most western states of the U.S. We’re really not that excited, which is a little surprising. Usually people who leave for a two ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/30/youd-think-we-were-going-to-a-funeral/ well it's friday night and we're drinking and playing video games at Steph's. We decided not to go camping tonight because apparently it's the time of season where the grizzly bears are out and we would be camping in the middle of nowhere in the rockies. Since we only have ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/29/115lbs-pizza/ Today we went to the Big Rock Brewery in Calgary. It was pretty sweet; we got a tour, got to sample the beer and got to bring back a six pack of mixed beer with us back home. They had ten different kinds of beer we got to ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/27/145/ Here's a video of us biking at the Canada Olympic Park. http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/27/downhill-biking-at-canada-olympic-park/ Despite getting injured and probably needing stitches on two different areas on my shin, today was in my opinion the best day of our road trip thus far. Some of you might assume it’s because I got special two-on-one first aid treatment from Biologist Dan and ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/26/heaven-on-two-wheels/ After being overwhelmed with the amount of viewers our site had, we decided to let them participate. We decided to accept dares from our viewers and we'd pick one per week to video tape and post. This following video is from a dare submitted by Robertson. It shows Nick going ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/25/weekly-dare-1/ Here is a video of Nick trying to complete the dairy challenge. For those of you who don't know what the dairy challenge is, it's a challenge where you have to drink 4 litres of milk or chocolate milk under 1 hour without it coming back up. It's impossible but ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/25/can-nick-complete-the-dairy-challenge/ We started planning our 8 state/14 day road trip South of the border tonight and this is what we've got planned so far. We still have to find cool stuff to do in every city we visit. We plan on staying in KOA campsites throughout our whole trip this time ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/25/rough-draft-of-our-american-road-trip/ After almost getting hit by the C-train, we went to Drumheller. Garmin (the GPS in the truck) told us to turn right on a road which is only meant for the cable cars. We noticed we were on the wrong road and were lucky the C-train wasn’t their. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/25/bad-lands/ As you can see throughout the website, we’re having a lot of fun and spending very little. Even though we have been gone for 10 days now and drove over 4000kms, we still have money in our pockets. The road trip isn’t costing us much because ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/24/little-money-a-lot-of-fun/ Here is a video clip of us in the water park at the West Edmonton Mall. http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/24/rub-a-dub-dub-3-men-in-a-wave-pool/ The road trip is super fun so far and I don’t want it to end. We went through Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and have BC left. Our original plan was to make our way to BC and then go hit up job fairs and interviews on ski resorts. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/22/129/ Our first day in Calgary proved to be a good one. Even though we drank a sufficient amount of beer last night, we were still able to get up nice and early this morning. After eating two pounds of bacon, showering and shooting the shit in Steph’s dining room ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/22/machine-1-nature-0/ I’m writing this blog in the truck on the way to Calgary. We left Edmonton about 30 minutes ago and are scheduled to arrive at around 5:30pm. We have to admit we’ve been pretty lucky since we left Timmins and this is the reason for this post. Most campsite we’ve stayed ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/21/everything-tastes-better-when-its-free/ Cars running out of gas aren’t only something you see in movies. On our way to the Edmonton mall, crossing a busy intersection, the truck started to stall. Lucky I spotted a gas station at the corner. Before entering the gas station, which was only a few meters away, the ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/20/bone-dry/ In the comment section of this post, write down something funny and original you would like to see us do (or one of us do). We will pick one at the end of each week, record it and post the video on our website. The boys http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/20/weekly-dare/ This road trip is going great, and I want to dedicate this post to the stuff I find impressive. p.s. We're at our campground in Edmonton right now. it's almost 5pm. First of all, the fact that our truck is getting more and more organized as we get further and further ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/20/success-is-an-understatement/ It’s 6:30pm and we just finished eating supper in Saskatoon. We’ve been eating pretty good considering we have one cooler, a camping BBQ and a butane stove. We had ham today and pork chops yesterday. We’re on our way to Edmonton tomorrow then Calgary the day after (check our event ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/19/fast-tracking-without-speeding/ Here is a short clip of Nick attacking deer in the sleeping giant park near Thunder Bay. On this video you will also see a deer taking a pee... Enjoy! http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/19/video-nick-with-the-deer/ It’s 10:30am and we just left Regina. We’re on our way to Rouleau to visit the corner gas set and then off to Saskatoon to camp there for the night (an extra stop we added). What was pretty cool about Regina was that it was really easy to find stuff, ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/19/everyone-loves-easy-access/ Here is a little video clip of how we have the truck setup for the trip http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/19/video-setup-of-the-truck/ I'm freezing right now and it kinda reminds me of tree planting.  We have our tent set up and we are at a campground in Regina.  They actually have the Internet here so that's pretty cool.  We just had some tea not too long ago but I'm still freezing.  I ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/19/79/ It’s 12:30pm central time and we’re about to leave Winnipeg to go to Regina tonight then to Saskatoon tomorrow night. I’m blogging from the back seat again which means two things, I have more room than danny and I have access to more food than him too. Our visit in ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/18/glitchness-galore-but-ended-up-on-top/ You can now follow the boys with the new event calendar that was added to the sidebar on the right. Enjoy! http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/18/event-calendar-added/ Here is what we are doing for the first 12 days of are trip     Friday sept. 14th Leave for Thunder Bay Stay at JF’s house   Saturday sept. 15th In Thunder Bay Hiking at Sleeping Giant Camping at Marie-Louise Lake with JF Sunday sept. 16th Thunder Bay to ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/17/are-scheduled-stops/ We arrived in Winnipeg just after the sun went down so I don’t really know if it’s a super nice town so far but I think it is.Last night me, Darce, Nick and Brian (Nick’s friend that is letting us stay at his place) went to Domino’s for some Pizza. ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/17/2nd-stop-of-the-trip-winnipeg/ Little side note for you drivers out there. If you’re planning a long road trip, going out of town for the weekend or even just filling up locally, www.ontariogasprices.com gives you the gas prices of most gas stations in Ontario. All you have to do is type in the city ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/17/you%e2%80%99re-only-cool-if-you-save-on-gas/ We just left Thunder Bay and we’re on our way to Winnipeg. It’s 2pm and I’m in the back seat again. Danny keeps on calling shotgun but I don’t mind, there’s a lot of room back here and I don’t have the responsibility to look out for the signs. Plus ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/16/sleeping-by-the-giant-and-running-for-the-fox/ I’m writing this from the back seat of the truck. We’re about two hours past Wawa, so about 3 hours from Thunder Bay and it’s 4:30pm. You might be wondering how this post got it’s name. Well, we kinda took a wrong turn after filling up in Wawa and we ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/14/did-the-lake-move-or-are-we-going-in-the-wrong-direction/ En route vers Thunder Bay pour aller visiter l’ami J-F ont ajouté du temps à notre voyage. En partant de Wawa, ont a été dans mauvaise direction. Ont était en route vers Sault St-Maire. Après avoir vu le Lac Supérieure a notre droite, Darcey à réaliser ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/14/piste-malade/ I'll only put a few pictures per post, if you wanna see more, check around this site or my Facebook profile. Nick http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/14/quick-note-about-pictures/ So it's our last night in Timmins before our road trip departure and it's past midnight. The truck is almost all packed except for the last minute stuff like toothbrushes, pillows, laptops and food. There was alot more to do tonight than we expected I think, at least more than ... http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/09/14/t-6-hours/ This is the new home of what is going to be a blog that follows 3 guys traveling across Canada and part of the United States on their ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP for the next year! http://www.4yearswasted.com/2007/08/22/welcome/