Road Trip - PacNW

Pacific Northwest & Western Canada Road Trip: Banff (Days 8-11)

The drive from Spokane, Washington to Banff is about 6 1/2 hours but of course that is only if you drive straight through. Stopping for the necessities like food, gas, and bathrooms means it is a pretty solid day’s trek, also dependent upon the border crossing from the US into Canada. The drive left the state of Washington pretty quickly and then spanned much of Idaho’s panhandle before crossing into Canada. From there, the topography began to change with the towering mountains first in the distance and then rising up and around us until we climbed ourselves up into them.

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Pacific Northwest and Western Canada Road Trip: Seattle and Spokane (Days 3-8)

This post will be far more spare than five days spread across these two cities suggests because the bulk of our time in these spots was to visit with family - first to attend a wedding in Seattle and then to visit other relatives at their home in Spokane.

That doesn’t mean that we didn’t see anything at all, though!

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Pacific Northwest and Western Canada Road Trip: Vancouver (Days 1-3)

Our 11-day road trip that would carry us across international borders twice started with a couple of days in Vancouver before we headed to Washington state and ultimately north again to Banff.

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Pacific Northwest & Western Canada Road Trip: 11 Days - British Columbia, Washington State, and Alberta

When I dream of hitting the road for an extended road trip to just go and explore without any time constraints, I mostly picture spots out west. It makes sense. There is ample open space, more solitude, fewer cities. I often picture spots from this particular trip - most particularly Banff, in Canada’s Alberta province, nestled in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.