When we woke up I hurried around the house trying to gather up all of the stuff I needed to take back to Calgary. A ton of my stuff is at dad’s as I moved it out of my old apartment before I headed to Saint John. I quickly found some clothes and hair products I needed and threw them in the car.
When all was packed we gave dad a dingle, asked if he had time to cook us up some breakfast at the café, and then headed in to town. Alexander went and said goodbye to the horsies quickly while I made sure everything was in the cars.
After breakfast we said goodbye to dad an then headed on our way back to Calgary. The trip isn’t very long—only 4.5 hours and I have done it many, many times now, so I lead, and Alexander followed with the Jeep.
We were headed back to Calgary!
We had definitely had our fair share of car troubles along the way and this final trip wouldn’t have been our adventurous finale to our Cross-Canada RoadTrip without some troubles.
We had almost made it to Calgary and were on the QE2 when Alexander’s Jeep decided it had had enough. He tried to use the accelerator, but instead of giving the engine more oomph and bringing him forwards the engine quieted down and his RPM’s fell. He could still drive at speed, but all acceleration was gone.
When we reached Calgary Alexander was in the special situation where he had to turn on his hazard lights going up hills because the Jeep could not get to the speed limit. I now followed behind him with my hazard lights on as well to make it safer. We did manage to get the Jeep home, but neither of us were very impressed that the Jeep was having problems. We were not happy on one side, but happy that our trip was coming to a close and this issue was not happening as we crossed the Rockies.
As we were in Calgary for a few days we were able to get the Jeep into the dealership to get checked out. Most of the people we asked hoped it was the cheapest thing to fix—the Fuel filter. It was not! It turns out the Jeep needed a complete electrical overhaul—with $750 worth of essential repairs.
Unemployed and currently arriving home from a 39 day Cross-Canada Road Trip this was not the news we needed. We were running out of money!
Anyways, we were supposed to take the Jeep to BC for Remembrance Day, but when we were packing I noticed something very important. Turns out that the entire time we have been driving the Jeep the registration had been expired. Oops!... so... we did not take it out to BC for Remembrance Day... yeah... we took my newly registered car instead…..
Back to the jist of this post. We made it to Calgary. We made it home.
After 39 Days on the road we made it from Saint John, New Brunswick to Calgary, Alberta, with quite a very interesting adventures in between.
Wow.
I wouldn’t have wanted to do it with anyone else! Thank you Alexander for being there with me and going on this trip together. It is a memory I will never forget
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