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I had many occasions to travel within Canada growing up.
For the first five years of my life, neither set of grandparents lived in Winnipeg, so we were either on a plane to the West Coast or a plane out east to Ontario. My dad worked for Air Canada, so I was lucky enough that most of my “road trips” were standby flights.
Lately, however, I have been focusing on spending my travel dollars elsewhere. In the past three years, I’ve been to Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, Nashville, Door County, Wis. as well as the UK twice and the Netherlands. The only Canadian travel I’ve done since 2018 was a quick weekend trip to Calgary in 2023 and an even quicker work trip to Vancouver in 2024.
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I have no plans to travel to the U.S. this year, which, as you can see from the itineraries above, is unusual for me. But with everything going on down there, I’m focusing on what we have up here.
Today — maybe even as this missive arrives in your inboxes — I am on a flight en route to Halifax to visit my friend Emily (yes, Emily of all my travel newsletters). This will be my first trip east of Montreal, and I am so excited to eat lobster, breathe in some salty ocean air and make an Anne of Green Gables pilgrimage over to P.E.I.
This is the only real interruption to NEXT; I’ll be back next Wednesday to tell you all about it. And if you need some Canadian travel inspo in the meantime, we’ve put together a little coast-to-coast tour for this weekend’s 49.8 section. (Come for the recommendations, stay for an awkward picture of me on a B.C. beach in junior high!)
See you in a week!
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