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Old 10-05-2024, 09:49 AM   #23001
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It’s just the Alberta-ness slowly growing within you

Soon you’ll be yelling at liberals, wearing a bass pro shop hat, and giving the side eye to immigrants.
I've been to the Bass Pro Shop down in Tsawwassen a few times and it sure is a different world in there. It feels like the place to go if you're either going to live off the grid or you're planning for the end times. Guns, dehydrated meal kits, outdoor cooking tools of all sorts etc.

I'm sure it's pretty normal for a lot of outdoor folks but for a city boy like me it was pretty weird to see.
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I need advice if anyone has done a trip from Vancouver to Texas.

The GF and I are moving down to San Antonio for 3 months later in October, and we're planning to drive down. I've plotted out my route over the course of 5 days, looking to stop at a few scenic locations along the way.

Day 1 - Drive straight down to Baker City or Ontario, Oregon
Day 2 - Shoshone Falls ending in Salt Lake City
Day 3 - Arches Park to Durango
Day 4 - San Juan National Forest to Alamogordo
Day 5 - White Sands Park to San Antonio

Anything I should be aware of, places I'm missing, things to note? This will be the longest road trip I've taken thus far, I plan on installing a dashcam before we head down just in case, but outside of that any thoughts?
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those bass pro shop hats are ugly. some ppl just like to show off their personality as loudly as possible.
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I need advice if anyone has done a trip from Vancouver to Texas.

The GF and I are moving down to San Antonio for 3 months later in October, and we're planning to drive down. I've plotted out my route over the course of 5 days, looking to stop at a few scenic locations along the way.

Day 1 - Drive straight down to Baker City or Ontario, Oregon
Day 2 - Shoshone Falls ending in Salt Lake City
Day 3 - Arches Park to Durango
Day 4 - San Juan National Forest to Alamogordo
Day 5 - White Sands Park to San Antonio

Anything I should be aware of, places I'm missing, things to note? This will be the longest road trip I've taken thus far, I plan on installing a dashcam before we head down just in case, but outside of that any thoughts?
Not sure if you have done Yellowstone/Grand Teton. If not, I'd strongly suggest taking the slightly longer route via WA20 (it's beautiful route to drive. You leave I5 after Burlington-->Spokane, WA-->Yellowstone/Grand Teton and back to I84 near Salt Lake City). Then Moab, Alburquerque and to San Antonio.

If Moab isn't your thing, I'd suggest visiting Colorado... basically the other side of San Juan National Forest (which sits on the Southwest from Denver)

As for tips, I suggest getting an Insta360 and just install it on the car. With a BT remote, you can activate whenever. My friend got some beautiful footages that he uses as b-rolls for his work and he kinda hardwired it to the trunk so it's always powered and everything. Dashcam for safety... sure. But for something like this, where you probably won't take the same trip again, I'd record it if I were you.
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I've never done it, but from what I've seen, good advice. Grand Tetons are legendary.
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I need advice if anyone has done a trip from Vancouver to Texas.

The GF and I are moving down to San Antonio for 3 months later in October, and we're planning to drive down. I've plotted out my route over the course of 5 days, looking to stop at a few scenic locations along the way.

Day 1 - Drive straight down to Baker City or Ontario, Oregon
Day 2 - Shoshone Falls ending in Salt Lake City
Day 3 - Arches Park to Durango
Day 4 - San Juan National Forest to Alamogordo
Day 5 - White Sands Park to San Antonio

Anything I should be aware of, places I'm missing, things to note? This will be the longest road trip I've taken thus far, I plan on installing a dashcam before we head down just in case, but outside of that any thoughts?
Your routing is kinda out of the way on the way there but on the way back you could go to monument valley, antelope canyon, grand canyon, zion canyon, bryce canyon. Buy an annual pass for the national park, only $90USD
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what's idiotic is people talking about this idiot.
What's even more sad is that there is an audience for idiots like him...
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wonder if they are doing this in BC too
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Your routing is kinda out of the way on the way there but on the way back you could go to monument valley, antelope canyon, grand canyon, zion canyon, bryce canyon. Buy an annual pass for the national park, only $90USD
You got it perfect there, that was my plan. I wanted to see Zion but figured we might as well go that route on the way home. Since we're driving back middle of January, I'd like to avoid Colorado/Utah completely due to winter conditions, so I figured we'd drive back through Zion, and eventually Nevada and the west coast through Oregon, avoiding the mountains and snow.

Hehe, that I20 suggestion is fantastic too, it adds a few hours to the drive down, but I'll go that route, never driven that hwy before. I was dreading the boring slog down the I-5 which is one of my most hated drives, this will make the Washington portion much more interesting. I think we'll head via Burlington >I20 > Baker City.

Grand Teton looks wicked but it seems like it's a bit of a deviation out of the way to get there, Yellowstone I feel like we'd need a few extra days to really enjoy it (as opposed to only a few hours we'd have to check it out).
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I need advice if anyone has done a trip from Vancouver to Texas.

The GF and I are moving down to San Antonio for 3 months later in October, and we're planning to drive down. I've plotted out my route over the course of 5 days, looking to stop at a few scenic locations along the way.

Day 1 - Drive straight down to Baker City or Ontario, Oregon
Day 2 - Shoshone Falls ending in Salt Lake City
Day 3 - Arches Park to Durango
Day 4 - San Juan National Forest to Alamogordo
Day 5 - White Sands Park to San Antonio

Anything I should be aware of, places I'm missing, things to note? This will be the longest road trip I've taken thus far, I plan on installing a dashcam before we head down just in case, but outside of that any thoughts?
My friend and her bf did the move permanently and also drove down. They specifically said that they needed to avoid sundown towns. Her bf is black and she's asian. Apparently extreme racism is still a thing in these towns.
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^A friend was telling me that yesterday.

We're most definitely visible minorities, but I sure as hell will never be bullied by anyone, full stop.

Did your friend mention any specific towns they avoided along the way? We're pretty much bombing straight through Idaho.
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We're most definitely visible minorities, but I sure as hell will never be bullied by anyone, full stop.

Did your friend mention any specific towns they avoided along the way? We're pretty much bombing straight through Idaho.
Wikipedia lists them... at least for Texas anyway
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Some of these towns (Tacoma, Seattle) are definitely not sundown towns, it looks like we're pretty good from what I'm seeing here, most of them seem to be in the midwest.
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You’ll be fine, most some stares and “where are you really from?”
It’s the southern states and the midwest that have that reputation.

Your route back, bring snow chains its legally required for california to oregon mountain pass. The wildest snow storm I ever drove through was the sierra nevadas crossing california to oregon.
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It’s the southern states and the midwest that have that reputation.

Your route back, bring snow chains its legally required for california to oregon mountain pass. The wildest snow storm I ever drove through was the sierra nevadas crossing california to oregon.
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This is awesome and stupid at the same time.
Well I thought it couldn’t get any uglier. I was wrong. It looks like a loaf of French bread from Safeway.

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You got it perfect there, that was my plan. I wanted to see Zion but figured we might as well go that route on the way home. Since we're driving back middle of January, I'd like to avoid Colorado/Utah completely due to winter conditions, so I figured we'd drive back through Zion, and eventually Nevada and the west coast through Oregon, avoiding the mountains and snow.

Hehe, that I20 suggestion is fantastic too, it adds a few hours to the drive down, but I'll go that route, never driven that hwy before. I was dreading the boring slog down the I-5 which is one of my most hated drives, this will make the Washington portion much more interesting. I think we'll head via Burlington >I20 > Baker City.

Grand Teton looks wicked but it seems like it's a bit of a deviation out of the way to get there, Yellowstone I feel like we'd need a few extra days to really enjoy it (as opposed to only a few hours we'd have to check it out).
Just remember that if you are taking WA20, I'm not sure when you are doing this trip, it's always closed during winter season. So, check status before you go. They get snow earlier than we do, so when you think it's still ok to go, they might have closed it already.

Edit: just saw you are doing it in Jan. Forget it then.
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