I take my FRS Across Canada Touring Thread

Hey guys, we do this on the motorcycle forum a lot with touring threads. But I'm taking my FRS across Canada (well technically Half way across Canada) starting from the GTA and moving to all the eastern provinces sans Newfoundland though that's in the near future.

I leave tomorrow at 5:30 am with the first stop being Montreal. Over the days I'll use this thread as a means to post cool shots with the FRS along the journey since I don't think our beautiful country gets as much credit as it ought to get.

I'll update it tomorrow when I arrive at my destination and will continue to update it as I keep taking more pictures

The car's only got 4 seats but I'll take you guys along for the ride with me.

First picture is of the car hibernating before the 8 day 5000 kilometer road trip which begins tomorrow.

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[Frost]

I'm doing a similar trip in October! Will be subscribing to this thread for more ideas as well. Post an intinerary if you want to!

Cheers.

October should be nice. I hear the Cabot Trail at fall is absolutely beautiful.

Itinerary: It's a crammed week with lots of driving, but I still think it'll be a blast. And I am by no means limited to the itinerary I'm free to do whatever this is just a rough guideline.

Day 1 Wednesday June 22:
Montreal
-Leave house at 7am
-Montreal 1 pm
-1379-A Sherbrooke Street West -- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / 20 Dollar Adults, 13 Dollar Students
2:00pm
-110 Rue Notre Dame Ouest -- Notre-Dame Basilica
2:30/3:00pm
-800 Rue de la Gauchetière Ouest – Underground City (Mall)
4:00pm
Old Montreal – Walk around, Sightseeing etc.
5:00pm
-4050 Bullion, Montreal Dinner – Arepera 30 Dollars
6:00pm
Drive to Quebec City 3 Hours
9:30-10:00pm
7320 Boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel, Quebec City – Hotel for Sleep and Breakfast 70 Dollars

Day 2 Thursday June 23:
Quebec City
Wake up 10:00am Breakfast at Hotel
Montmorency Falls and Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré from Quebec – Sights
11:00 am
Old Quebec and Lower Town – Walk around, sights, lunch etc.
1:00-2:00pm
Leave for Fredericton New Brunswick 6 hour drive
8:00pm
649 Queen St, Fredericton New Brunswick – Dinner at Isaac’s Way 30 Dollars
9:00pm
1214 Lincoln Road, Fredericton – Hotel 70 Dollars

Day 3 Friday June 24:
New Brunswick
Wake up 10:00-11:00am Breakfast
Odell Park
12:30pm
Leave for St John, New Brunswick (1 hour)
2:00pm
33 Canterbury Street Saint John New Brunswick – Lunch at Thandi’s 40 Dollars
3:00pm
Irving Nature Park on Sand Cove road
4:00/5:00pm
Leave for Moncton (2 Hour Drive)
7:00pm
130 Westmorland Street, Moncton – Dinner at Gusto Italian Grill and Bar
8:00pm
Casino/Live Theater/Hotel and Relax
Casino Address: 21 Casino Drive, Moncton
Theater Address: 811 Main Street, Moncton
Motel Address: 1650 West Main St., Moncton GoMotel 100 Dollars

Day 4 Saturday June 25:
New Brunswick
Wake up 10:00am
1999 Mountain Road, Moncton – Breakfast at Jean’s Place 15 Dollars
11:00am
Hopewell Rocks and Lunch 10 Dollars Per Person entry – 20 Dollar lunch
2:00pm
Leave for TreeGO Tree Climbing Centennial Park, 811 Saint George Boulevard, Moncton 30 Dollars
5:00pm
Dinner at the Pump House 5 Orange Lane, Moncton, New Brunswick 30 Dollars
6:00pm
Leave for Prince Edward Island 2 Hour Drive
Victoria Row 136 Richmond Street, Charlottetown
8:00pm
Walk around and get food/go to a bar
9:00pm
Hotel at 20 Capital Drive, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 100 Dollars

Day 5 Sunday June 26:
Prince Edward Island
Wake up at 8:00am
Have breakfast in the city
9:00am
St. Dunstan’s Basilica 45 Great George Street
10:00am Drive to Green Gables 50 Minutes
Green Gables 8 Dollar entrance
12:00pm
Food in Cavendish 30 Dollars
Cavendish Beach
1:30pm Leave for PEI National Park 30 Minute Drive
2:10 pm
PEI National Park
3:30pm
Drive to 235 Brudenell Island Blvd 50 Minute drive
4:30pm
Hour Long Horse Ride through Trails 35 Dollars
6:00pm
Dinner at Clam Diggers Beach House 7 West Street Georgetown 30 Dollars
7:00pm
Drive to Seal Cove Campground 87 Mink River Road, Murray Harbour, PEI 1 Hour Drive
8:00pm
Camp at Seal Cove in Tents 40 Dollars

Day 6 Monday June 27:
Nova Scotia
Wake up 7/8:00 am
Drive to Wood Island PEI for Ferry 30 Minute Drive
FERRY LEAVES AT 9:30 FROM WOOD ISLAND TO CARIBOU NOVA SCOTIA 80 Dollars 1 Hour Ferry Ride
11:00am
Leave for Cape Breton (2 Hour and 30 minute Drive)
2:00pm
464 Chebucto Baddeck, Nova Scotia – Lunch at Tom’s Pizza 30 Dollars
3:00 pm
Meat Cove, Nova Scotia (3 Hour Drive + sight seeing and whale watching)
6:00 pm
Finish up Cabot Trail (2 hour drive)
8:00 pm
15424 Cabot Trail, Cheticamp, Nova Scotia -- Dinner at La Gabriel Restaurant 30 Dollars
9:00 pm
Camp at Corney Brook Campground – 15 Minute Drive north of La Gabriel GPS Coordinates N46 43.580 W60 55.523 24 Dollar Entrance Fee

BACKUP PLAN 15086 Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia – Albert’s Motel or 16537 Cabot Trail – Cornerstone Motel 50 dollars each

Day 7 Tuesday June 28:
Nova Scotia
Wake up at 6:00am
Leave from Cheticamp to Halifax (5 Hour Drive) Total Distance Driven 3096 km
11:00pm
Lunch at the Bike Thief – 25 Dollars
12:00pm Go to Halifax Public Gardens and Halifax Citadel
Leave for Peggy’s Cove 1 Hour Drive
1:00pm
Leave for Slaughenwhites Cascades for River/Waterfalls + Hiking 30 Minute Drive
Upper Tantallon, Halifax Regional Municipality
N 44° 41.007 W 063° 53.161
3:00pm
Leave for Truro, Nova Scotia – 1 Hour Drive
4:00pm
Victoria Park Hiking CLOSES AT 5:00 -- 40 Douglas St, Truro, NS B2N 2E7
5:00pm
Dinner at Frank and Gino’s 286 Robie Street, Truro – 25 Dollars
6:00pm
Leave for Amherst, NS – 1 Hour Drive
7:00 pm
Walk around city, bars etc.
Stay at Pied Piper Motel 19038 Highway 2, Amherst -- 50 Dollars

[Frost]

Might I suggest the town of Summerside, PEI for a slight detour? It's supposedly a gorgeous sea side town but it's slightly out of the way.

Originally Posted by Frost

Might I suggest the town of Summerside, PEI for a slight detour? It's supposedly a gorgeous sea side town but it's slightly out of the way.

If I have time during the day I might be able to check it out. The itinerary has the "worst case scenario" times, so I'll most likely have a couple hours extra of free time.

[MuseChaser]

Meat Cove, baby! Good for you. I've only been once, but it's a magical remote place. Have a bowl of clam chowder at the place. Yeah, "the" place. There's only one. When we were there, I think there was one school-aged person living in Meat Cove and she waited on us at the little restaurant/campground place. Nice girl. She said that in the winter they'd send a Suburban fitted out w/ tracks to pick her up and it was a 2 1/2 hour ride to school. My kind of place!

Enjoy your trip. PEI is one of our favorite places; I went there for the first time back in the early 70s as a kid, my wife and I honeymooned there in '82, and we've taken our kids back a few times over the years. We loved our trips around Cape Breton and the Gaspe peninsula, too. Meat Cove was a highlight; incredible place.

Have a great time.

Barry

[illmatic_frs]

Amazing itinerary! Did Peggy's cove earlier this year. Beautiful.

Halifax has some awesome offloading trails.. but please do not take the FR-S on them :-)

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[Frost]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

Meat Cove, baby! Good for you. I've only been once, but it's a magical remote place. Have a bowl of clam chowder at the place. Yeah, "the" place. There's only one. When we were there, I think there was one school-aged person living in Meat Cove and she waited on us at the little restaurant/campground place. Nice girl. She said that in the winter they'd send a Suburban fitted out w/ tracks to pick her up and it was a 2 1/2 hour ride to school. My kind of place!

Enjoy your trip. PEI is one of our favorite places; I went there for the first time back in the early 70s as a kid, my wife and I honeymooned there in '82, and we've taken our kids back a few times over the years. We loved our trips around Cape Breton and the Gaspe peninsula, too. Meat Cove was a highlight; incredible place.

Have a great time.

Barry

Do you remember where this clam chowder place was?

EDIT: Was it "Oceanside Chowder Hut"?

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by Frost

Do you remember where this clam chowder place was?

EDIT: Was it "Oceanside Chowder Hut"?

I don't remember the name of the place, but I wasn't kidding about it being "the" place. The quotes don't mean it's the best place, they mean it's the only place. Meat Cove is tiny.. like, a handful of people .. running a campground/snack shack and living pretty alone up there. It's gorgeous, but definitely NOT a tourist destination in the usual sense of the word. There's some camp/tent sites pretty much on the edge of a cliff/bluff overlooking some beautiful ocean scenery, hardy friendly people, and rustic roads approaching and exiting. That's about it. Like I said, it's my kind of place and I feel blessed to have been there. It's just outside, to the north, of the national park (where we saw and hiked next to so many wild moose it was like seeing pigeons in NYC). If you find Meat Cove, trust me, you'll find the clam chowder. I won't even say it's particularly spectacular chowder, but considering what you have to go through to get it, it's worth it!

Best,

Barry

[Frost]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

I don't remember the name of the place, but I wasn't kidding about it being "the" place. The quotes don't mean it's the best place, they mean it's the only place. Meat Cove is tiny.. like, a handful of people .. running a campground/snack shack and living pretty alone up there. It's gorgeous, but definitely NOT a tourist destination in the usual sense of the word. There's some camp/tent sites pretty much on the edge of a cliff/bluff overlooking some beautiful ocean scenery, hardy friendly people, and rustic roads approaching and exiting. That's about it. Like I said, it's my kind of place and I feel blessed to have been there. It's just outside, to the north, of the national park (where we saw and hiked next to so many wild moose it was like seeing pigeons in NYC). If you find Meat Cove, trust me, you'll find the clam chowder. I won't even say it's particularly spectacular chowder, but considering what you have to go through to get it, it's worth it!

Best,

Barry

It's definitely Oceanside Chowder Hut! It's the only place in the area and the area is a campground!

[Skurj]

Never been east but done GTA to the west coast and back a couple times on bikes, one day I have to go east! Longest I have spent in the BRZ in a day is around 10hrs and it wasn't bad at all.

(not including lapping at calabogie then driving home after..)

[AREN]

Nice, that sounds like an epic road trip @ButeraFRS. Have fun and safe travels.

[Tcoat]

Holy crap But I have seen military maneuvers completed with less planning and attention to detail!

In contrast my wife and I are driving to Atlantic City in two weeks and our itinerary and plan consists of:
Drive for a while and find a hotel.
Sleep
Get up and drive some more until we are there.

That is a very nice little trip you have laid out there.