This thread reminds me of our eastern trip when we lived in 'Peg about 15 years ago. Before moving to Calgary, we decided to do a road trip east during summer holidays and see the other side of Canada. Kids were 5 and 8 years old then. We had a minivan that held tons of stuff and roof top carrier to carry even more goodies.
Drove through US as interstate had better road, better rest areas along with cheaper gas at the time.
Here is our travel path: 'Peg-Chicago-Detroit-Niagara Falls-Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City-Moncton-PEI. We were running out of time so time to head back home (still in my wish list to tour Newfoundland and NS in future).
Coming home, we went down to US again: Maine(awesome whale watching)-Vermont-NH-outside Boston-Syracuse-Buffalo-Cleveland-Chicago-'Peg.
We only booked the hotel night before and if we wanted to stay longer in certain area/city, we can as we are not obligated to move on with hotel reservations. If the weather was foul, then we drove on to the next destination. Priceline was fantastic, then, in scoring hotels deals for like $35-40/night which helped with our overall expense. Our Dodge minivan survived almost 8000km trip unscathed. I don't think I'd do it now in my 50's, but it's something my family still talk about which is priceless.
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