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Title: Travel: Pre and Post Internet.

By: The Nomad

Travel Internet before:

I traveled for over 40 years - by thumb in my early days in boots in the Scouts, a Lambretta coming next and then my first old car followed by a new old bangers to the beaches of the Costa Brava.

My thumb, boots, bikes and bangers took me all over Europe and the UK before finding a charter flight to Spain on an old 'Connie' could go on the beaches and bars much faster and allow more time to enjoy the travel opportunities to local horse and cart and the occasional bus and train.

"Go West and Prosper seemed a good idea if instead of taking a 8:00 flight, I took eight days a transatlantic crossing from Tilbury to Montreal on the Stephan Batory Polish Ocean Lines to ensure that the offset schedule has not hurt my travel plans. A few years later, I crossed the pond again on a ship, but this time he was five times bigger and I traveled in style on the QE2 and dined at the Queen's Grill at some distance from my previous experience. I strongly recommend travel on the ocean, but do not see myself on one of the modern cruise ships from port to port with a constant queue for up and down to buy T-shirts. However, I made 10 Windjammers and Star Clipper cruise in the Caribbean have all been memorable (hopefully Windjammer Barefoot Cruises recover from their ailments). But I digress.

I read that Canada is a spectacular country, from sea to shining sea, and my entrance into the St. Lawrence to Montreal, then west in a van Econoline alumni around the Great Lakes, across the prairies to the Rocky Mountains before ending up whale watching off the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island has been a journey of wonder for a guy from London. Today, the scenery is always spectacular and the best way ahead is by road, so renting or buying a car, RV or motorcycle, take the train or bus tour, but remember the cards a fly rod, good shoes and take your time.

My favorite part of the Canada / US travel adventure should be in northern BC and Alaska, hiking the Chilkoot Trail in the steps of the gold diggers of 1898. The Northwest Territories Canoe the Nahanni River and the Yukon to drive from Dawson City to Chicken, Alaska. If you love the outdoors and can put up with some bugs, cast a fly and scale a few hills or drive on dirt roads endless sharing space with moose, caribou, elk, bears and eagles, and these are the places to put on your list. The pleasures and experiences in the conduct of Inuvik on the Dempster Highway and the Prudhoe Bay on the Dalton Highway, or even the Canol Road can be felt by them. I said the Alaska Highway, but now it is done under a drive foregoing.

Today, the cost of driving such distances may mean sharing the journey with others is necessary, but simply Vanning and RV or camping is a great way to see beyond the horizon. Some adventures in road must now be booked in advance so that when I walk the Chilkoot Pass and Denali was just a matter of turning up, registration with the local ranger office and the OUT . A long-term planning a little more is needed for today's traveler and cost of long flights or drives were somehow be countered with more rigorous planning. In the days of gasoline prices reasonable, I would not even consider driving or flying costs and led to Key West from the northwest coast, west coast of Baja and the west coast of New York. Once, I even stole my taildragger 1946 of the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic and back with about 5 gallons per hour of jet fuel. Before the oil crisis and credit I drove from Rio de Janeiro to Lima, down to Tierra del Fuego and back to Rio covering over 15,000 miles of spectacular scenery and without any consideration about the cost of gas. South America should be on your site.