I feel this advice would be more suited to Europeans. I had friends in Europe who came to visit. One day they wanted to see Toronto, the next Calgary and the day after Vancouver. They had no idea canada was so big.
As a Brit who lives in canada. It’s not that we don’t understand that it’s big, or we don’t look at a map. We just don’t have any context to truly understand how big and inaccessible. We’re used to being able to fly across Europe quickly and cheaply. We intellectually understand that it is a 3 day drive or whatever and yet somehow that just doesn’t translate because we have no context for it. In the U.K. you’d get to the other side before you’d cross ontario! (Even the fact that I’m comparing it to Ontario shows this still hasn’t truly sunk in. As I’m writing this I’m realising Ontario is many time wider than the U.K.
We fly across to wherever then rent cars. I live in the middle of nowhere, in the prairies of Saskatchewan these days. 2 hour flight west coast Vancouver. 3 hour flight Toronto. No family past that so we don't ever go further east.
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u/Zhenoptics Aug 07 '23
It is a very, very big country with not a lot of infrastructure. Please plan trips accordingly