Fancy buses and travel trailers have their place, but in certain contexts simplicity can be a huge asset. This little toy hauler lets you easily get your ATVs, motorbikes, and other implements of outdoor fun to the places where you can play with them, and then it gives you a comfortable way to eat and sleep once you’re there. And it does these thin

Just when I think I’ve seen the full extent of Canada’s geological glory, I find myself staring 30 feet up at a woman’s face carved into limestone. This sculpture is not the creation of humans. This is the methodic work of centuries of erosion, carved from the remnants of a prehistoric seabed thrust skyward out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence after

“He’s being swept away by the river!” – I was worried, briefly, as the yellow eight-wheeled contraption in front of me suddenly turned hard left into the current. I had thought we’d be using these Argos to cross this river, it took a few moments to realize the driver had made the turn deliberately. You can tow up to 544 kg with an Argo – and

We're 15 minutes into a 35-minute wait for construction. There's not a traffic flagger in sight. There is, however, a man selling tortillas and some sort of beverage walking down the long line of cars. This is exactly what I was hoping for when I stepped off the plane in Costa Rica's Guanacaste province for two days of driving. Well, not the traffi

It's been raining in Toronto. Quite hard. So much that roads and underpasses around the city are flooding. That means that if you're driving around the city that there's a chance you're going to run into a flooded road. This next bit is important. Don't drive over a flooded road. We'll repeat that one: Don't drive your car over a flooded roa

If you grew up in Ontario, then you’ve undoubtedly heard that Yonge Street is the longest street in the world. And if you’ve got a curious streak, you might also have wondered what it would be like to travel its entire length. I’ve often pondered this myself. But this time, I have to confess that the final proposal was my daughter’s idea. Bef

The road is perfection, a twisting ribbon that follows the path of the river, flowing along its bank with much the same jounce, wriggle, ripple, and run. Across the way, you can see the main road, the straight route, fast-moving traffic pulsing along it in bunches. Here though, we're alone, and together. The road is perfection. The weather is

2014 BMW i3. Click image to enlarge Review by Lesley Wimbush, photos by Lesley Wimbush and courtesy BMW Amsterdam, Netherlands – Named for the dam that crosses the river Amstel, this charismatic city in the Netherlands is one of the world's toughest places to obtain a driver's license. As such, Amsterdam has developed a complex net

It was Friday afternoon, and Team Gushue had all but sealed their place in the World Curling Championship in Edmonton. I’ll admit I’ve spent many a night lately watching the sweepers work on TV – perhaps too many a night. And now, just days before the final, I find myself in Calgary, only a few hours from Edmonton, where the gold-medal game will be

I’m sitting in my uncle’s kitchen, raving about how rugged and unspoiled the scenery is across Canada’s portion of the Lake Superior shoreline, a few days after my daughter and I returned from our journey along Highway 17. “Of course it is,” my uncle retorts. “No one goes there. It’s two days away from everywhere.” On that last point, he’s no

Water from the birth of time, water from the deepest depths of Earth, from the crests of Age-Old Glaciers, the waters of our rivers, great and small have carved out our country. We are of this place, we are Huron-Wendat, Innu, Cree, Abenaki and all our brothers, we are from France, from Scotland, Ireland, England, and from farther still. For

Photos by Stephanie and M. Wallcraft Enter Manitoba along Highway 1 from the east, and one of the first landmarks you’ll encounter is a large roadside billboard proclaiming that you’ve reached the centre of Canada. It takes a fair while to get there. It’s more than an hour from the Ontario border, and from the road tripper’s perspective, the

I hear my husband’s voice at the other end of the phone, exuberant merely at having heard from us, and I begin to sob. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by maps. I’ve travelled extensively, both within Canada and around the world, and I’ve never felt as far from home as I did that day in Fort Smith, Northwest Territo

North West River, Labrador. It's a town, and we're using that term a little loosely, with fewer than 600 people residing there. The nearest place of note is eight hours away by car, and the road that can take you there didn't even exist 15 years ago. If you want to go to a city, you're looking at a plane trip. North West River is about as far north

Originally published on Autos.ca on November 4, 2013 ( Top Picks: Best Roads in Canada ) Stelvio Pass, the derestricted Autobahn , the Nikkō Irohazaka, blah, blah, blah. What about roads Canadians can actually drive on in something other than a rented diesel hatchback ? It's not like we don't have a lot of tarmac criss-crossing this big ol' co