High_Side wrote:ceemes wrote:
I take it you never lived in Lacombe. That alone would pretty much sour anyone on Alberta.
As for traffic, man I will take Vancouver traffic nightmares over the hell that is Calgary's Trail Hell any day of the week. I could do the run from Lacombe to Calgary Airport in just over an hour, almost 200 K's if I recall correctly, and then spend another 45 minutes getting from the Airport to the Calf Robe Bridge.....shudder.
And I assumed that the two hours it takes to break through Vancouver on the TransCanada to get to Horseshoe Bay would prepare anyone for crappy traffic. The same two lanes that were plugged heading in to the endless 'burbs that were plugged twenty years ago are surprisingly still plugged. The only way I caught the ferry last year was by using the west-coast motorcycle express lane (aka the park lane) when I managed to shave it down to 1:45 and damned near missed the boat. Calgary's traffic sucks but Vancouver has it beat big time.
You are trying to tell me it took you two hours to drive from Downtown Vancouver to the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal, a trip of some 21 K's? Damn, you really must of hit it a bad time. I once lived in Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast and often had to ferry/boat over to Vancouver for business. Never took me two hours to do that run. Of course I did have some local knowledge about how to avoid the worst of the traffic jams.
Mind you I agree, the Trans-Canada aka the Worlds Longest Parking Lot can be a right bear, especially between the 2nd Narrows Bridge all the way to Langley, but even so, it never took me more then an hour during rush hour to get out of the Vancouver core and into Surrey or Langley.
And man, did I ever bytch and complain about the Lower Mainland traffic, still do at times, but it is nothing compared to that of the Blackfoot Trail in Calgary.
High_Side wrote:ceemes wrote:
But you are correct, there are some nice rides in Alberta, if you headed west. Canmore and Camrose come to mind. However, living in the Lower Mainland of BC, I am spoiled for chooses, sometimes I think we here are too spoiled.
I'll agree about B.C.; I love that place and have spent years exploring every nick and cranny in the southern half of it on two wheels.
Camrose on the other hand.... Did you mean Cochrane?
That's it, Cochrane, I knew it started with a "C", thanks. That is some pretty country. Anyways, next time you head down this way for a tour, give me a shout. We can explore more of my area and slag each others Province/Traffic of a cold one.
(it wasn't a straight jacket was it????)