Timeline for Is there a way to travel from Canada to Japan that's cheaper than the most direct flight routes?
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| Aug 31, 2016 at 16:38 | comment | added | Twelfth | @SpehroPefhany - I'm getting 36 to 38 mpg in my smaller car on the highway...works out to about 10cents a km with gas above $1 per liter with van city center to just east of calgary costing around $130. I'd imagine $450ish, probably more, to do the full van to Toronto today. Single person flight is usually cheaper and several days quicker. Calgary to van in particular is really only an option outside of winter...some of the roads (including the newer coquihalla) completely close from snowfall. I'm unaware of northern ontario, but it couldn't be much better. And the mosquitos.... | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 16:05 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | @Twelfth Many years ago I did Toronto to Vancouver through Canada in ~48 hours driving just myself, but I was very young and the speed limits were higher and less enforced.. almost half the trip (20 hours to Kenora) is getting out of Ontario and another 25 hours to Van according to Google. I hate to think of the gas cost to drive now. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | hippietrail | Indeed! A similar distance in Australia took me 13 days. There were lots of places where you basically couldn't go past the edge of "town" because there were no services for well over 100km plus it was the desert plus much less traffic than across Canada. But yes across desert in Australia in summer is still more doable than across Canada in winter for sure! I've hitched Mongolia in the winter but might not do Canada in the winter. OP has to know their stuff if they're seriously considering this! | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 15:24 | comment | added | Twelfth | @hippietrail It's likely a week long journey if you get lucky, it's a 4300km trip afterall. If you can get from Vancouver to Toronto in under 48 hours drive time (no rests/gas counted there) you are doing very well. There are patches in the rocky mountains and northern Ontario that have no services for well over 100km (that includes no cell service). It's actually quicker to drive Toronto to Van cutting through the states than it is going through Canada as well. Calgary to Vancouver is 10-12 hours alone (pending traffic) and you don't really want to attempt that in the winter. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | hippietrail | OP hasn't told us his hitching experience or nationality. I assumed they must be Canadian and an experienced hitcher given the huge distances. But yes maybe the OP is actually naive. I hitched across much more sparsely populated Australia last November and met other hitchers along the way. But yeah it's definitely not for the unprepared! (-: | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 14:44 | history | answered | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |