We'd flown to Vancouver but we had a wedding to attend in Saskatoon roughly 1000 miles to the east, so that meant hopping in a hire car and heading out on an epic road trip! If you look at a map of Canada that doesn't look like much of a distance, but I blame Canada for that, for being ridiculously large. Over six days on the road we crossed two mountain ranges, visited a former gold rush area, a wine region, and numerous national parks, where we saw nature of awe-inspiring beauty. We'd hardly left Vancouver when we had the first beauty spot, the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Any frisson of fear from walking along a small bridge over a gigantic ravine was somewhat dampened but the hordes of tourists, but nothing could interfere with the sheer
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