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macro wrote:

nxski wrote:Great pictures! I've visited a couple of those same places and now you're making me want to go back. Labrador looks to be a very neat area that not many people go to.

Thanks! I can't wait to go back to Newfoundland. Labrador was really neat, one major thing was there is almost zero signage for any interesting spots. The pamphlets from Gros Morne outlined all the cool stuff we missed. If you're already on the rock though, the ferry to Lab is only an hour and a half and $32. Cheap enough to go over for a couple days. We wanted to go to Miquelon and St. Pierre(?) but the tickets were something like $90 EACH for a passenger ferry!

I wish we had the time to go over and do that. It's so much harder to make the trip all the way back there now.

nxski wrote:I wish we had the time to go over and do that. It's so much harder to make the trip all the way back there now.

Yeah I really wanted to do it while I live here. It's easier to just go to NFLD and then hop the ferry across, but the Trans-Lab is such a cool thing to see. Next year I want to drive the James Bay road. It's all paved now, but parts are even MORE remote. There's a side route that doesn't go anywhere. If you follow it to the end though, you're something like 700km as the crow flies from the closest anything!
http://www.jamesbayroad.com

Here's a couple more pictures to show the carnage.

This is from the 1000km of dirt road, my quarter panels are now shredded. Time to get the Monstaliner I guess!

IMG_5625 by TheMacrobius, on Flickr

IMG_5626 by TheMacrobius, on Flickr

And one more,

IMG_5631 by TheMacrobius, on Flickr
You're damn right I did!!!!!!

Sounds like you had quite a trip! I came across a travelogue site that someone had put up about similar trips in his diesel Jetta wagon. Nowhere near as extensive.

http://tlhwy.com/central/virtualtour/hw ... 38901.html

He also did the James Bay Road and the Trans-Taiga in Quebec. Fodder for future adventures, maybe?

http://jamesbayroad.com/

Did anyone ever pick up on the 'dogs' thing? I know it. Your post is definitely the dogs, alright...

Not sure about the other one though...my only experience of Jean Shepherd was his columns for Car and Driver.

I actually came across that same site in my research for the trip, it also turned me on to the James Bay road! Hopefully that's in the cards for next year. The next big trip is up to my better half though, so I think we're going to Europe instead of driving around in a van for two weeks. What a weirdo. If I'm able to take the time off work I really want to make it up there. James Bay!! That's crazy!

Two friends of mine did the James Bay in their spanking new Honda Fit. They got the thing home from the dealer and, within a week, had decided to make the trip 'just because'. I don't think they did the Trans-Taiga though.

Maybe for an encore, you could drive the road up to Red Lake!