Emerson Bridge Park to 120 south of Fort Nelson BC JUly 30th Monday

Solved Gopro issues, relocated the pad on my dash so the cord reaches, it goes off each time the car starts so I getting better at turning it off and starting a new tape, Changed time lapse to 1 second per frame from 5, works out to be 30 times faster than real, the past tape were 150 times faster and so too much to watch I think. Animals, I killed a prairie dog, most seem to run and stand up every few steps, so you see them run hop run hop, this one was ran without looking I guess. Also the a Pronghorn, too far to take pic of, also a dead one at the side of the road. Bought fuel a few times filled up my spare tank at $1.30-32.  Pull off at a raised pad about 120km short of Fort Nelson, had I stayed a bit longer I would have seen a nice spot beside a river.

Within seconds the car is attacked on all side by bugs, many are interest in the thousands smashed on the front bumper and so I don't get out of the car.  I should say the speed signs are truly a suggestion  around here, I and passed by an unmarked car when I'm 35km over and I guess that was not fast enough for this area. I did see one car pulled over though.  All three provinces have photo radar and they are very serious about it near towns or within the city. As soon as you see the sign everyone slows down.  Drove 1367km today running total it 4627km.  

Thunder Bay to Emerson Bridge Park Camp Alberta July 29th Sunday

Just one more spreed trap for the time north of Thunder Bay, slept at a rest area, woke to camper checking out my car.  Turns out that during the night his truck front end was hit and he was looking to see is I was responsible.  I looked at the damage and wondered how he could sleep through it.  There was a great free rest camp stop some where north of Thunder Bay I recall from the last time I drove through this area. I was hopping to make it there, For future reference it located 7km east of hwy 71 or 25km east of Kenora.

Filled up near Winnipeg $1.19 Winnipeg has the worst pavement of any major city in North America, Detroit has better pavement, major ruts when passing through an intersection, took an hour to rive through. Saskatchewan blow by quickly, drove though Regina in just 20 minutes, Fuel $1.20, Alberta the land without sales tax but somehow fuel cost $1.30.

So far I have been blasting though the country on the Trans-Canada stopping only for fuel  as these area are not new to me and so my real focus of the trip is Northern BC, Yukon and NWT. I turn north at Brook onto hwy 36 which goes straight north beyond Edmonton.  Pulling off at Emerson Camp which in beside a river, buy firewood $10, site $10, find out the lights within my car don't work and this is not good. Shortly after sunset I hear a lone coyote howling for about 10 minutes, it does not get a response.  Fire good, starts with just one starter stick, bugs ok, its very dry here. Other sounds include something in the bushes behind the site and a cow. Drove 1780km today.

Parry Sound to 40km north of Thunder Bay Saturday July 28

Gopro still inn learning curve mode, battery looks like it last 4.5 hours, turns out 3 hours. When you press the pause/stop button it flips into regular video mode so no time lapse.  I can post that but it just me driving for 3 hours.  As for the trip the most notable events, saw my first moose just north of Wawa and 10 OPP radar traps. I stopped only for fuel, at $1.30 and $1.36, drove 1265km today.
I will not post time lapse until I get to library or fast connection.  The Timhorton I'm at does not have any plugs and the first video that is just 3 minutes long says 1 hour to up-load so that does not work for me.

Drive to Cottage country Parry Sound Friday July 27

I had a lovely drive up the 400 highway today, traveling just 30km in the first hour, next much better with 76km and the last 112km.  Parry Sound the driest part of Ontario today with a forest fire still raging on just 40 km's away, Ellen's garden is dust. I had nice meal with Ellen and friends Dave and Maureen to celebrate my 50th birthday, it going to take a while to remember 50.

I set up the Gopro for time lapse 5 seconds 4k and checked when I arrived, the battery said 87% which did not make sense given it was on for 3 hours and yes I turned it off somehow, so no 5 minute video of the drive to cottage country. I will try again tomorrow.  I hope to make it to Thunder Bay or a little beyond.  The spot sent 2 emails one when I left and when I arrived, don't know why it did not sent every hour, it seemed to stop flashing.  Also I have learned that it will not link to Facebook or the Blog but links to twitter, I have an account but have never tweeted anything, they send me lots of junk mail though. 218km today no $ spent. km's at start 591103 weight 228lb.

Gopro 5 Black

Gopro5 idea not without issues, just bought a new laptop to accommodate new tech.  Software seems to work on new platform so I can do photo time lapse vs video time lapse before posting to my Youtube channel "Toronto-Tuktoyaktuk-Toronto", a unique name such that it is searchable on both YouTube and Google. The Gopro plugs into USB charges so then it really comes down to memory card size, A Gopro tech had recommenced is do 1 frame per 5 seconds and estimates my card will burn 1 gb in 40 minutes or about 85 hours of recording.   Although if I'm using the USB charger I'm not listening to music. So much to learn and figure out.

New computer does not charge on USB.  I will try the inverter but that tend to blow fuses so I have a bunch of fuses and will use sparingly. Diesel cars don't start with a weaken battery and you can't boost a diesel car.

The gps spot tracker seems to work and car is all set-up.

Very cool video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICHEbFokcSI

Dempster Trip 2.0 departure date July 27, 2018

Yup I'm going to the top of the world again this time to the very end of the new road, same car as before it now has 591k km.  I plan spend more time in the Yukon, Northern BC and NWT weather permitting.  Lets hope for dry warm days ahead.  Just bought a Gopro5, laptop and SPOT GEN 3 GPS locator which will up-date my location hourly or when ever I click it.   I will bring better cold/wet weather clothing, my snorkeling gear and dry suit have to go swimming in the ocean no matter how cold it may be.  Over all this trip shorter at about 18000 km, as always the least money spent means the more time adventure.  I night in the bush in the car is another day on the road.