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I think you guys aren't aware what happened a few years ago in British Columbia. Massive damage from the "atmospheric river". Basically there was no way to get from Vancouver to the rest of Canada Where you were driving, there was no road. Google 2021 Jackass Mountain. For just that one little section. November 2021.
Canada , being such a huge country has vast differences from region to region. B.C. is the only province where you can't go anywhere without seeing mountains.
Great video guys! I loved the comment that Canadians do everything backwards (metric vs imperial). USA is the only country that doesn't use the metric system. It is easy to get used to once you start using it. Keep up the great videos, big fan.
LOL! Welcome to Canada. Remember, we only have 2 seasons here. Winter & Construction! And watch out for the mosquitoes, they only get bigger the further North you go. You may want to get a machete to carry with you. If they grab you and start to fly away, just start flaying the machete above your head to cut off their legs.
The netting on the side of the rock cuts is to retain the constant falling small and sometimes large rocks constantly coming loose through freeze thaw cycles
Another BC resident here. Other people have mentioned the catastrophic flooding in the fall of 2021. The Fraser Canyon route (Hwy 1) still has a way to go until it is back to how it used to be. I took a trip over both Hwy 1 and 5 at the end of May. The Coq is just about back to normal. The last washed out bridge is almost complete and then that highway will be back to how it was before the great flood. Always enjoy seeing my back yard from a different perspective!
Sask resident here. I visit a friend in Chilliwack and last year got to see that flood damage first hand. good to hear that things are looking up as far as flood recovery goes. I've driven the Coq with a car and a semi-trailer and still prefer to run the canyon (shallower grades and prettier drive IMO). your highway crews are REALLY busy, any time of the year. and uh, actually Master Diesel means the main pump where there is a pump on each side of the vehicle; this is more for semi-drivers but the diesel is still "Road Diesel" rather than "off-road diesel". BTW, welcome to Canada, Eh? LOL
I was living in Langley BC at the time of the floods in 21. I have never felt more isolated than that time. All 3 hiways out of the lowermainland/Fraser Valley were washed out at the same time. Only acces to the rest of Canada from that region was by airplane or crossing into the US.
It's been kind of fun watching you literally drive by where I live, Chilliwack BC. I haven't gone down the comments but thought I would share some of the history behind the work you have been encountering on your way through the Fraser Canyon. In 2021 BC had catastrophic flooding which washed out all of our highways, the @1 and #5 and #3. We were cut off from the rest of Canada and it was pretty devastating to our infrastructure. Along with devastating fires just before the floods. The highways are still being rebuilt. And yes we live in amazing and varied landscapes. Enjoy.
Im a resident in B.C. Canada and recognized every twist and turn you went through. Quite fascinating to listen to tourists speak about our beautiful country and specifically abput the beautiful province of British Columbia, the conversions and differences. I just found your channel so im not sure where you are in your journey to Alaska, but ima keep watching to figure it out. Hopefully its been an epic adventure so far.
We passed you guys coming into Tok on June17 when we were leaving Alaska to go back down that incredibly difficult journey home! We love watching you guys and feel your pain every step! If it was easy - everyone would do it! I hope Alaska was as life changing for you as it was for us! Safe travels!
Bienvenue au Canada mes amis! Welcome to Canada friends! A couple of quick tips: There are 3.78 liters per US Gallon. To quickly convert KM's p/hour to MPH multiple by .6 and round up. Same for distance. 100mk's x .62 = 62 miles. All Canadian Provinces and Territories are very different in terms of geography, weather, and demographics. Hopefully, you will explore more in the future. Have fun and thanks for coming.
Le Canada est fantastique, C'est un pays formidable. A la Cote du Pacifique, l'Atlantic est a l'ocean Arctic. C'est le meuiller. Je t'adore mon pays est tout le monde aussi.
You 2 are very entertaining. Thx for the good words about my country. We RVed for 2 months in ‘22 from Montreal to Vancouver Island. Overall super trip. Very nice glacier, breath taking views of mountains, beautiful lakes, wild animals and welcoming towns like Jasper, Lake Louise etc. Have a nice time in Canada and hope the US switches over to metric…like the rest of the world. It is so much easier. For exemple temperature: just how Mr Fahrenheit came up with the unit 32 for the freezing point??? And somewhere very cold are negative digits??? Like +0F is very cold but seems Iike -1F is much colder…because of the negative digit!!! Also, -40F is equivalent to -40C…how is that possible Mr Fahrenheit??? Meanwhile in metric, 0 Celsius is the freezing point so anything below 0C or negative digits is freezing and anything above is not. How much simpler is that?
Y'all are amazing at keeping things moving and being entertaining while telling a story. Do either or both of you have journalism or broadcasting in your background? Your videos are so professional and well-edited. Thanks, Hanks! ❤❤❤ Stay safe! I'm loving Canada with y'all! ♥️🙏Jane in SC
I was a travel ER/ICU nurse for 20 some years. RN for 33y. Love your videos. You guys are awesome! I binged watched all your videos a while back.Dex is so funny!😎👍🌻
I'm glad that you enjoyed your trip here. Sometimes I forget that many people have never experienced places like the ones you've shown. God bless you and stay safe on your journey.
Hey you two, I see your having a bit of an issue with the conversion for KM to MPH, up here in Canada most of us are taught that we just use a conversion of 6, multiply 6 by your KM to determine your MPH. Example: 100 KM multiply by 6 equals to 60 MPH. 100 x 6 = 60. With this simple conversion you are always just a bit under the speed limit by just a bit, it helps rather than trying to determine exactly how fast your are going. Multiplying by 6 is a lot easier than using the multiplier. 0.621371. 100 x 0.621371 = 62.1371 MPH. I am not big on remembering that decimal in my head, and most of us Canadians just multiply by 6 to make it easier. Hope this helps. Welcome to Canada and safe travels on your trip!
Great video. Like how real you both are on video. You both say how things really are and don't sugar coat things. Enjoyed the footage of the train and the music that went along with it, very fitting. New to the channel as a subscriber and enjoyed getting my first Newsletter.
I ABSOLUTELY love y’all! So much fun, and y’all genuinely seem to love what y’all do, travel, share your adventures and give great tips to your audience! Y’all should meet up with Marc and Trish with Keeping your Day Dreams! Safe travels! Give Dex a treat !
another fun fact: In Canada they round up/down pennies since Canada doesn't make pennies. So if something ends in 1 or 2 they drop it, if the price ends in 3 or 4 they round up to a nickel. $1.01, $1.02 both would be $1.00, but $1.03, $1.04 would be $1.05.
Y’all should come back through the okanagan valley on your way back to the states, all the RU-vid folks miss out on a beautiful part of British Columbia on their way to and from Alaska. You’re missing out!!
Absolutely. The Fraser canyon is quite majestic but those that don't divert a couple hours east through the Shuswap lake and down through the Okanagan are missing out on a truly epic adventure. The scenery and lakes in the Columbia shuswap, Okanagan are breathtaking! But then again so is most areas of beautiful British Columbia!
Hope you've got the Milepost with you - it'll keep your sanity. We've made the trip up and down the Al-Can several times. You'll run into "frost heaves" on the road surface as you approach Tok, pay attention to the speed signs for "frost heaves". Towing a 5th wheel up the Al-Can can be very expensive IF you are traveling too fast, you can bottom out the suspension on the truck and the actual 5th wheels weight/size can jerk the truck bed up and down violently. Seat belts or not you can hit you head on the truck ceiling, it hurts! The "chainlink type" netting on the cliffs is to slow down and contain falling boulders from hitting vehicles. Keep your eyes peeled for the wildlife too. By now you've encountered the Canadian Imperial liter of gas, essentially the Imperial gallon is about 5 quarts of gas. Once your far enough north you'll see more moose, elk, grizzlies and Bison. Oh the Bison really love the green grass along the road. Sometimes they'll lay down on the highway, look out for the new Bison calves too.
Went up to Yukon about 35 years ago, some woman with a deep southern accent told us we should have ‘the mapose’. It took us a day to figure out she meant The Milepost. It was a great help as we drove the Dempster up to Inuvik. Great trip, and we still laugh about the mapose.
A Loonie is the Canadian one dollar coin. It is called that because it has an image of a loon on it. A loon is a bird. It is made of bronze plated nickel and is yellowish in color. The Toonie is the two dollar coin. That's the bi-metalic one, which means it is made with two different kinds of metal. The inner portion is made of the same thing as the Loonie. The bright outer ring is made of nickel. It has an image of a polar bear on it. Both coins have a picture of the British monarch on the front. Most of the coins in your pocket will be of Queen Elizabeth. Soon, they will be King Charles, unless they haven't already started with that.
I have not heard of any plans of King Charles being on Canadian coins and I hope he isn't going to be. Canada should end ceremonial and any other ties with the British Monarch. Many Canadians are not even British and Canadians talk more like Americans with a Canadian accent. Canada is a sovereign nation that already has an identify. King Charles is also pro great reset which makes the case for ending all ties even more of a priority.
10:10 mark: The "What do you call the room where you pee?" question is a common one on videos of "Americans Driving Through Canada to Alaska." Restroom, Washroom, Bathroom, Loo, Can, John, whatever. I'm a lifelong BC resident. I think I use the terms "Washroom" and "Bathroom" the most. These videos are fun to watch. When I travel south of the border into Washington State, all those measurement and word differences become relevant to me, in the opposite way. In the grand global scheme of things, this type of international travel is not very different on either side of the border. Thanks for your video production excellence. So much fun to watch. (American fun x 1.4 = Canadian fun) 11:59 mark: Happy to be completely backwards :)
"We're in Canada." It's an embarrassing thing Americans say...We're going to Canada...provides absolutely no context. Become familiar with the name of the Canadian Provinces and name them. You're currently in British Columbia, Canada. You wouldn't say, we're in the USA...means very little. You'd say we're in Montana, USA...gives context. Again it's a naive American thing.
No, they're speaking to their American audience, which I'm sure has no clue what the provinces are named. Just because we know about the U.S., don't assume the reverse. Imagine if someone here said they went to such-and-such a province in Mexico or India??? Right. No clue.
Master Diesel/ Marked Diesel is a western Canada thing. For the most part in Ontario, pump diesel is all taxed and colored diesel is usually bulk delivered to farm tanks or construction sites.and in Ontario I gallon milk is in bags or 1 and 2 litre containers.
I am from Saskatchewan, have a diesel truck and camper and have been out to B.C. numerous times. I have never seen marked or “ purple “ diesel at a pump either. Mind you I don’t fill at the pumps meant for big rigs. Most if not all campers will fit under the awning at any service station.
As a cat lover myself, I think it's extremely cool that you've brought Dexter along with you on your travels. Other van lifers I follow all seem to have dogs, which I also like, but it's still nice to see the kitties represented! 🐈 Welcome to Canada! Hope you enjoy your stay! 🇨🇦 🍁 Doesn't your truck's spedometer have both miles and kilometers on it? All vehicles in Canada have both kilometers and miles, with the km's on top and in larger font. FYI: Hopefully, you won't have to, but should you end up at a hospital, if they take your temperature and weight, even though they may officially recird them in celsius and kilograms for official fovernment purposes, the nurse/doctor will also be familiar with fahenheit and pounds, and will rell you your temp and weight.
Man! I’m glad I watched this video! Thanks for all the knowledge about Canada. Also, you made my day by not going with another truck when I bought my Ram 3500 the other day. The DEF tank is right next to the gas tank. I promise I’m not rubbing it in. 😎
In 'Merica, we have a very similar system with the Diesel for Ag use vs regular travel fuel. The Ag stuff is red and if you get caught with it in a regular travel vehicle, the fines are massive!
Virtually every RV campsite along the main highways in Canada are next to or near the railroad tracks, as are the highways themselves, just the way the country developed. Sometimes it's worth it to pick a spot a few kms. off the main route, just for the added peace and quiet.
One dollar is a Loonie. Two is a Toonie. Two loons. As a rough guide in temperatures 20C is approximately 68F and 30C is 86F. Just reverse 6 and 8 to deal with the known human comfort ranges. Below 68 it gets cold, above 86 it begins to get hot. For speeds 50 KPH is approximately 30 MPH and 100 KPH is 60 MPH. And be nice to the cops. Unlike their US breathren who's main task is to find fault arrest and collect money for their community, Canadian cops truly serve and protect. Use common sense and give respect, they will usually reciprocate.
I hope you have thermacell. Nothing better to take care of those mosquitoes and keep you from spending your time swatting especially as you head north. They grow them big on the Yukon and Alaska.
My husband and I just did the drive from Vancouver to Prince George on this route, in our 1969 Superbee for the 2023 DragIt drag & drive event. We drove over 1000 km in 5 days. Beautiful scenery, friendly little towns and big fun! Hope you enjoy your travels through Canada!
Fuel is more expensive in Canada due to lack of refinery capacity, and we tax it higher at the provincial (aka big state) and federal levels to pay for road infrastructure work because we don't fear an over armed population overthrowing our governments, as yours recently tried to do. The USA has historically under taxed fuel and given enormous subsidies and hand outs to the Big oil companies basically to make it seem artificially cheap at the pump compared to other places in the world.
How to tell if someone's not from B.C. - it's going to take 7hrs.......nope wrong anyone from here knows it's 5-5 1/2 hrs tops lol. Ok 4 1/2 if your me!
You can set your speedometer to metric by going into your settings in the DIC and both digital AND analog speedometers will give you KPH, no need to try to convert, your Denali will do it for you. Edit: you did this later, I made the comment before watching the video LOL. So you do know...😁 Also, rinse off any spilled DEF, it is corrosive! I bought a hand pump from Walmart think it was $10 or so), stick one end of the clear tubing in the jug, the other end in the DEF fill port and hand pump, no spillage or lifting that heavy jug. I actually like where the DEF fill is...it's not something that needs to be filled often and I would be concerned about being tired or distracted and accidentally putting DEF in the diesel tank if they were right next to eachother.
@@horizontraveler3180 correct...you can't put diesel in the DEF tank, but you can certainly put DEF in the diesel tank. I know several people who have done just that. Luckily they realized it and had their truck towed to the dealer for a tank flush but it's as bad as putting gas in the diesel tank. Sometimes convenience isn't always good. I like the redundancy.
Hey do y’all practice grounding or earthing Basically walking bare foot to get in touch with the pulse of the earth Just wondering. You spend so much time in the vehicle with thick hiking shoes. Might be a good ideal of getting back into nature. Just a thought
I loved the "master" diesel analogy. It was awesome. At cardlocks the "master" is the master pump and on the other side is the "auxiliary " pump. These two pumps are to fill up both side tanks of the semi trucks. You can use one at a time and it is that way so you don't have to throw the fill nozzle across to the other side of the truck. 😊 Plus at $1.759 per liter that is 1.759 x 3.78= $6.649/ gallon Canadian then add 40% exchange to US and ...... mind explodes on the real price of fuel ⛽️
We are Canadians living about 20 miles west of Prince George so you have probably gone past where we live. We have a good laugh over you Americans and your confusion when you come to Canada. We have spent the past few winters in Arizona so maybe the Americans feel the same way about us LOL. We are leaving soon for the Yukon (also going Hwy 37 and back Alaska Hwy) so maybe we will see you on our travels. Drive safe!!
North Vancouver Island would be worth a visit, if you've got the time , but every where I've been in Canada is gorgeous and worth it. I work at a gas station (Petro Canada. ;)) and we call the marked diesel marine gas. Lots of boats up here. Lots. We also sell a ton of def..love watching your adventure..
Don't let the def on the gmc drop below 20% because if that sensor in the tank gets stuck you'll be in big trouble! Just toggle up the display after starting the engine. Warnings start at 29%.
Oh, the American arrogance to say other countries are "backwards" or do things backwards because they don't do things the way you do! Educate yourselves on how many countries use the metric system before you speak!
Yes, but I was surprised as hell to find out the UK still uses MPH. I thought my wife and daughter were pulling my leg when they came back from a trip and told me about it but a quick search confirmed it.
Have been meaning to do this for some time. You two...and Dexter...are a breath of fresh air that is desperately needed in the RV industry that takes itself way to seriousley see Liz Amazing, Grateful Glamper etc.. You absolutely break me up...always good for lots of laughts. Thank you!
Carl: it's okay that you had us watch Nae Nae, but you didn't let us watch you whip first. Marked Diesel/Off Road Diesel is #2 fuel oil/heating oil/farm tractor fuel. The red dye means you weren't charged road tax on it, which is why it's way cheaper.
Hi guys. From our experience so far, in Canadian dollars, for the same truck (Denali 2022 HD Diesel) with the same tank, you should always look for about 115,00 CAD on a half tank. This has been our case for the last 2 months towing our 10,000 lbs travel trailer in the BC mountains… not cheap, but so amazing! Have fun on the Cassiar HW. Drive safe!
Haha glad you guys enjoyed the scenery. Litres and kilometres arent weird, the standard system is weird. Literally the US, Liberia and myanmar are the only countries in the world still trying to do crazy math in their heads with the standard system. Never could figure out the appeal. The metric system is by far the easier one to use. Everything is multiples of 10. No 1/2's or 8th's or 16th's or 32nd's that need a calculator to break down accurately. Join the club guys. A mile is what 5280 feet?! Whats a quarter mile? Or and 8th?! Better get a calculator. A kilometre is 1000 meters. Super easy to break down into fractions or multiply together. Same thing goes for liters over gallons. Or kilograms over pounds. Hope your trip was amazing, great video!🤙
The Cassiar route is amazing. So is the AlCan, but you won’t regret your choice. Careful of your drone usage. We have a lot of restrictions with special license and permits required to fly them.
You’re correct, there isn’t much difference. Coloured or marked diesel has a slight lubrication to it. And it’s also illegal to run coloured or marked diesel in vehicles operating on public highways… at least it is in Ontario lol
Literally the only difference between off-road diesel and highway diesel is the color. They both are the same formula otherwise. So you can use off-road. But don’t let DOT test your fuel.
I love my late model 2002 dodge diesel three-quarter ton. Each speed. No DEF praise the Lord. But it’s high mileage. It’s finally hit 72,000 miles US. I need to drive a little bit more but when it’s only one of you and you have two vehicles you seem to take a smaller vehicle because I have a long bed extended cab because of the fifth wheel. So I can always park it just any place easily so I drove the car a little more.
FYI The canyon you went through where the tunnels were is the Fraser Canyon carved out by the Fraser river. The Fraser river starts in the Rocky mountains east of Prince George travels to PG and turns south and ends up in the Pacific Ocean. You would have crossed the Fraser River in PG :)
Glad you enjoyed your drive up the scenic Fraser Canyon on the Trans-Canada Hwy. My part of the world. We always prefer to travel up the Fraser Canyon as opposed to the Coquihalla Hwy from the Coast of BC to our home in the Interior. Prettier and more interesting as landscape always changes. Hilarious seeing you doing the conversions from US measurements to metric!
New comment for the next video segment. The diesel master means that there is a second pump on another island for fuelling commercial trucks with tanks on both sides. There is probably a pump with the same number across from you, and that is tied to that pump. STAY AWAY FROM DYED FUEL. That is for off highway vehicles only (farm tractors, construction equipment, etc.) and you don’t want to caught with that in your on highway vehicle’s tank. It is not charged fuel tax at the pumps, so they dye it to catch people who try to cheat the fuel taxes.
We just drove the Fraser Canyon earlier this month and you’re right - it is gorgeous! November 2021 ALL interior route to Vancouver and the Coast were washed out during an atmospheric river event. The construction you passed is the ongoing work to fix the damage. We came down the Coq (Coquihalla) and the damage is even worse. Will be looking for you in case you pass through the Skeena area!
Welcome to Canada. You are seeing it well and proper. Also you two are cute together. Won't be long until you discover that 5 hours of driving is not very far. This is a bigger country then you'd expect.
Loonie is a dollar... twoonie is the 2 dollar coin. We did at one time when I was a kid have one and 2 dollar bills....on a side note. First time watching you and you are hilarious..🇨🇦❤️
At around the 6 minute mark...it looks like 2 of the 3 mountain passes that we use in my Idaho valley that is in an isolated area of the Rocky Mountains. While driving those winding roads with their switchbacks, one seems to always dodging either fallen rocks, cows, deer or elk. :P
The next time you tour Canada, go through Alberta to see Banff & Jasper. Alaska is where mosquitoes go to train for the Olympics. Are you both completely clueless about the metric system, or is it just a bit of comedy?
These guys r very smart whipper snappers. Of course they never had a need to learn the metric system in usa, however their learning curve is flat, they are completely having fun yanking our chains. 😂 love the mosquitos remark. 🍻
We stayed at the Mamayeh campground just before you were there! It was a bit rustic but very nice, and the $27 USD price for full hookups was super cool!
Enjoy Canada!! Your visit has inspired us to take a trip and drive to Alaska via Canada. We've only been to Alaska via airplane, so I'm super excited to drive there after seeing your videos. :)
Oh my goodness!! Thank you so much for your wonderful gift ❤️ We are really happy to hear that ya'll will be coming this way someday. Much love from the Hanks family for all your love and support 🤗 - Renee, Kyle, and Dexter
There are a LOT of rest stops in the province of B.C. because much of it is mountainous, and driving on mountain roads can be very stressful for people who aren't used to it so rest stops are there to allow them to take a break when they need to. Not to mention a LOT of mountain roads have been hewn through solid rock and/or are on very steep and dangerous slopes where there is NO place to pull over, so they really did need to build in rest stops where cars and big rigs could pull over safely and without impeding other traffic. And the big rigs DO need to stop often to check their brakes and make sure they're up to the task of all the constant and sometimes VERY long and precipitous changes in elevation (especially the going down bits). As for rest of Canada and all of its OTHER provinces which are NOT so mountainous, there aren't nearly as many rest stops as there are in B.C. - you can drive for HOURS in some places and not see even one! Liters (or litres) are almost the same as quarts. So divide the number of liters (or litres) by four, and you'll be able to convert how much gas you pumped into the approximate number of gallons. You _should_ always be able to get milk in half gallons (two liters/litres size) and quarts (one liter/litre size) but it will usually be in waxed cardboard containers in western Canada (and in plastic bags - I know, weird!! - in parts of eastern Canada). Enjoy the rest of your trip - all the differences from what you are used to is part of the pleasure of traveling elsewhere!
It's funny to listening to you guys talking about Imperial to metric conversions. Did you know only 3 country use imperial still (USA, Liberia, Myanmar) the rest of the world using Metric. Come on USA.. make the switch.. you can do it. I remember being in school when we switch to metric.. the country was confused and it took us awhile to make the change. I sill find myself going back to pounds and feet for my height and weight.
