Rust In Peace, Subaru!

First of all, the Christmas season is arriving, so first of all: MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL!!!


Well, my Subaru celebrated the end of the cross-Canada trip by busting the brake lines, they rusted out so I lost all the brakes. Finally, I decided to donate my car to charity, where they can fix it and find some use for it.

Farewell picture.

Across Canada with the car!

Forget the truck, this time I get to travel across Canada in my car. One last trip before I go back to Spain, a farewell tour for my Canadian family.

Ah, for once I get to pass the trucks!

Dark Northern Ontario Hwy 11

Snow. Lots of it.

H and R truck. Many of them:

I have to stop for a Banana Split, in Moosomin, Saskatchewan. Cheers!

On the move...

My life is up side down at the moment. I'm in the process of moving out of home. I am currently unemployed, and in three days I'll be homeless as well. My only possessions will be my car, and a couple suitcases.

I feel liberated by the fact of getting rid of so much. My furniture, my TV (sniff...), most of my books, and a whole lot of stuff of which the Salvation Army has been a recipient.

But it is exhausting.

I still have to drive out west (in my Subaru) for the last time for a farewell visit to my Canadian family out west, before someone takes possession of my car (It will probably be the Fire Department in Ottawa, they could use it for practice), so I will try and do my best to document my next trip across the Trans-Canada.

CHEERS!!

LAST CANADIAN TRUCKING DAYS

Forgive my tardiness, but my life has been topsy-turvy for the last month or so...

I have decided to end my Canadian trucking experience for good. I have had enough. It has been fun for the last (almost) five years, but it is fun no more. I did enjoy it very much while it was a new experience, and I'll never regret having done it. But as another winter approaches, I have to say that, since the last one, I have been looking forward to it with dread. Deep down I'm a European trucker. Snow once in a while, OK. But not all the time, please.
Last but not least, I miss my family in Spain, and the food...

I will be in Spain on time for Christmas, and I plan to keep on trucking.

Here are some recent pictures of my last trips.

As you can see, snow arrives early October.

But then it melts away...

And then it comes back.

Chiliwack, BC. Ahhh, the eternal springtime...

Eastbound from Vancouver, Chiliwack is just before the Rockies.

Back to real life... across the Rockies.

Busy snow plow, working on wet snow.

Beautiful Canadian fall.

Nothing better then trucking in the fall. The calm before the storm? You bet! Winter is on its way, so now I brace for the chill to come...
Pictures of the North Bay-Pembroke (Ontario) stretch.

Take a rest from trucking!

Day trip into Quebec to get some work done, with the help of a friend.

I still love my Subaru, even if it is old and has high mileage (287.800 kms), but it does have to be babied sometimes...

Mmm... Nothing like a Subaru boxer engine, nice and flat. Easy to work on.

It needed a new ignition coil.

On the ferry, crossing the Ottawa river into Ontario.

Approaching sunset on the river.

Trucking on!

Montreal transport yard. Front seat view to the airport runway. I could stay there for hours...

Three cops in a row, awaiting in ambush. Hwy 401 Montral-Toronto.

I've been everywhere...

A Renault 18 in North America... A very rare sight!

Sheridan, Wyoming. Took the wrong exit looking for the Wal-Mart.

Double rainbow, west of Denver CO, on I 70.

Awesome.

It came out of the sky...
(Near the Oklahoma-Kansas border, on I-35)

Where I've been lateley.

From Toronto to Edmonton, and then from Edmonton to Vancouver.

Sliding my tridems to the back, for a more comfortable ride. The fifth wheel also got slid to the back. At the scale house in Cochrane, Ontario

West of Edmonton, on the Yellowhead Highway. First time at Jasper National Park.

North of Kamloops, on HWY 5. Nice view in a lay by.

On the Coquihalla south of Kamloops, H&R trouble. Steep grade must be to blame.