In summer 2014, my family went on a road trip to alberta. The trip to get there took two and a half days of full on driving. It took us the first two days to drive out of ontario; which was the most boring part of the trip. Looking out the window the only thing to be seen most of the time were different trees, deer, gas stations and more trees.
Now we were no strangers to road trips having y taken trips to Montreal and Florida; already taken trips to Montreal and Florida; we had our car games, DVDs and music there to keep us occupied. We killed a lot of time talking about all the things we planned to do when we got to Alberta and all the people we had to visit. Since we used to live in Edmonton, we had tons of family we were excited to go …show more content…
The land was very flat, mostly farming land with different types of wheat, corn and gorgeous flowers of all kinds of colours. We stopped a few times to take photos with the flowers, though we were all tired and groggy from the long car ride and so we wound up looking like death in the photos.
After a few hours, we noticed a more mountainous terrain passing us by and my dad laughed and yelled out,
“Look outside! We’re here!” his voice full of relief and excitement.
We drove around for a bit while my dad explained to my mom what to type into the very old GPS, we looked out the window to see the beauty that is Alberta badlands seemingly untouched by man's destruction. After a bit, we reached Drumheller and watched the road and the mountainous area roll by.
When my dad stopped the car, my brother stared at a near empty parking lot and than to my dad,
“Where are we?” he asked unblocking his seat belt,
My dad opened his door “just come on” he said and started to walk away from the van. We all followed him across the hot black asphalt under the high noon sun until we reached the white coloured pavements and looked
Now we were no strangers to road trips having y taken trips to Montreal and Florida; already taken trips to Montreal and Florida; we had our car games, DVDs and music there to keep us occupied. We killed a lot of time talking about all the things we planned to do when we got to Alberta and all the people we had to visit. Since we used to live in Edmonton, we had tons of family we were excited to go …show more content…
The land was very flat, mostly farming land with different types of wheat, corn and gorgeous flowers of all kinds of colours. We stopped a few times to take photos with the flowers, though we were all tired and groggy from the long car ride and so we wound up looking like death in the photos.
After a few hours, we noticed a more mountainous terrain passing us by and my dad laughed and yelled out,
“Look outside! We’re here!” his voice full of relief and excitement.
We drove around for a bit while my dad explained to my mom what to type into the very old GPS, we looked out the window to see the beauty that is Alberta badlands seemingly untouched by man's destruction. After a bit, we reached Drumheller and watched the road and the mountainous area roll by.
When my dad stopped the car, my brother stared at a near empty parking lot and than to my dad,
“Where are we?” he asked unblocking his seat belt,
My dad opened his door “just come on” he said and started to walk away from the van. We all followed him across the hot black asphalt under the high noon sun until we reached the white coloured pavements and looked