Dam. We did the dam tour. And it was dam good. Pics of our cross Canada trip.

[Jim]

Hi Jim. All those pictures from today are of the town of Lévis. It’s right across the st Lawrence river from Quebec City in the province of Quebec.

I'm trying to find out what the buildings are. The first one looks like maybe apartments? The second one looks like maybe a courthouse or something? And the third, individual apartments or homes?

 

[Voyageurs]

I'm trying to find out what the buildings are. The first one looks like maybe apartments? The second one looks like maybe a courthouse or something? And the third, individual apartments or homes?

The one that looks like a courthouse is actually a catholic junior senior high school. The other ones are various residences. I love the architecture.

 

[Voyageurs]

Short entry today. We are beat. I think we did 15000 steps today in Quebec City…and I’m sure it was uphill…both ways. And I was carrying our old chihuahua for half of it. . So 7 pictures only. Great city. Super friendly. I seem to have regained my fluency in French although I’m sure I have list a bit of my vocabulary. . I just used Spanish words to fill in the blanks. (You would be surprised how often that works .

If it’s not on your list then add this city and region to your list. Easy to kill a week here.

Here we go. M

 

[Chargerman]

Very nice pics. Thank for sharing your experience there.

 

[Voyageurs]

Very nice pics. Thank for sharing your experience there.

Our pleasure.

 

[Voyageurs]

Hi folks. Just going thru some more pictures of the Quebec City area which I will post today or tomorrow. We are on the way back west.

But we also stopped at an enroute rest stop in Ontario for a pee and coffee break and they had an IVY branded charger there with a CCS and Tesla station. Never seen anything like it. It has a built in adaptor for Teslas. Figure we would try it out and low and behold it works. Kinda slow at 50 kw but then again the rest stop had 2 restaurants so it would probably be fine for a lunch stop. We only stayed long enough to try it and get a few pics as we were headed for the Supercharger in Cornwall. Anyway, here are a few pics. Good to see public chargers adding Tesla cables.

Anyway, I’ll get the remaining Quebec pictures up soonest.

 

[GleanerC]

A very recent addition to our local DC station. Tried it for the first time last evening. The adapter is stored in the white box just left of the red bollard. Only hit 31 kW but I was at 76%. Next time I’ll give it a try at a much lower state of charge. Agreed, great additions.

 

[Voyageurs]

Just a few more pics. We have been on the road and now dead heading across northwestern Ontario. 500 to 600 kilometres a day which for us is a lot as we typically travel half or less than that. Back into touring mode day after tomorrow. But here are the wrap up pics from Quebec City area and along the route.

Montmorency falls outside Quebec city.

Basilica de Beaupre

Sucking up some free electrons at the Voyageurs lodge and cookhouse. They allow free dry camping and Tesla destination charger usage. We had a great breakfast at their grab and go restaurant. We stayed the night. Crazy electrical storm in the morning.

Our charge stats after 32 days on the road. The red is Superchargers and the grey is campgrounds. I’ll have to check but I think we are at just under 8000 kilometres at this point.

We’ll check in in a few days. Safe travels folks.

 

[Voyageurs]

A few more pics. Kinda boring but we are dead headed to Alberta and Waterton National park. Covering 500 to 600 kilometres per day. Back in camping and touring mode tomorrow. Hopefully the pics will be more interesting.

 

[Voyageurs]

Made it to Waterton national park. We overnighted at a supercharger last night after a 600 kilometre day.

ITS RAINING HARD HERE. More coming tomorrow but after that it should be nice for a few days. Lots of hiking planned after we update our bear spray. So far we love this park.

We dry camped here last night. Long day.

These falls are 300 metres from our camp site.

Our camp site in Waterton national park.

More coming in the next few days…unless we get eaten by a bear.

 

[Voyageurs]

Just a few shots today. We went to the prince of wales hotel today. Built in 1921. Interesting architecture. Swiss style. Beautiful old hotel. And you can see all the peaks in the distance. Some higher than 3300 metres. Unfortunately the cloud cover was quite low this morning. And a few other local shots. We really like Watertown national park. Four days is not enough here. We are hiking a local trail tomorrow. It’s going to be a tough climb but should be fun. Here’s a few shots.

And for the Americans, that is the US in the distance on the other end of the lake.

Had some downtime to clean up the inside of the Tesla a bit. Took a couple pics of the storage in the back. Because the tesla has no gas tank there are two kinda sub trunks. We keep the Coleman stove in one and our little propane champion 2 kw camp generator in the deeper one. There are covers that cover them up and make it all neat and tidy.

That’s it for today. Should be some good pics from our hikes tomorrow.

 

[Voyageurs]

These are the last few pics of our trip as we arrived home last night. I’ll check the numbers but I think it ended up at around 11400 ish kilometres and just under 1500 bucks in charging costs. Great trip. We have another one scheduled in September but only about 2200 kilometres. Vancouver islan here we come.

We stayed in a little provincial park called Jim Smith provincial park. It’s in Cranbrook BC.

We visited the Frank slide. Amazing. Lots of history there. Google it for an interesting story.

Hope everyone enjoyed the pics.

Safe travels all.

Ist pic is a pic of the biggest truck in the world. That’s it in the background. Look at the people standing beside it.

Jim Smith provincial park. No services. 23 dollars per night.

 

[Chargerman]

Great pics and info. Thanks again for sharing your trip!

 

[Voyageurs]

Great pics and info. Thanks again for sharing your trip!

It was our pleasure.