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Canada Trip 12 - Multi-day Road trip

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Night driving, elk jerky, country dirt roads.

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less than an hour from the Canadian border and all that mean [Music]

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he smells evergreens it's amazing I love it some at a truck stop

actually the truck stop before the border four miles down the street and I have something here I'm have a sack that was a gift for my buddy Chris from PG Island actually pretty close to where I am right now paleo kit this happens to be the surviving man flavor you know his maybe his signature design maybe the company approached him and asked if you want to put his name on that particular batch I don't know well the company has a bunch of different paleo kits stuff like that in my have a sec I've got like I've got like a have a sack of him he sent me a ton you rock man thanks Chris this is a Canadian I also have a North American on it has elk dried blueberries almonds bacon and walnuts that sounds pretty awesome sounds good to me right now has some other ingredients too like maple syrup spices salt garlic black pepper honey then it has some juice tomato juice carrot juice celery juice beet juice parsley lettuce watercress spinach sweet potatoes grapes apples oranges peaches mangoes those are the other ingredients olive in the blueberries almonds bacon and walnuts and of course elk meat oak Turkey

I'm gonna try that out I've been on the road for about 11 hours and I can use a pick-me-up before I cross the border and actually I'm going to open it with another gift this is there's a Green River knife it's the 42:15 it's been repro filed changed modified all that good stuff yeah I think rosewood handle it seems really cool it's like a $20 blade full tang

carbon steel you kidding me right now those are the cool little sheath the tip of the blade went through the end of the sheath on mine so I just sewed in a another chunk of leather in there looked out pretty good so my buddy Gary I'm in tastes rather it smells interesting hmm hope I like it that's kind of what those are all smell must be like the blueberries and like the bacon smell mixed it's kind of weird but elk and bacon popping let's not be good pee-soaked

that's what you answers to back in pack it's really easy to have a bunch of these in the kit he's just my have a sack woman dish and problem I have an absurd amount like 16 or something you know you don't take up any room so macro food so nothing is pulverized powder eyes and you only thought it's also chunks of stuff pretty good thus far mama trying to try try a little bit of everything mmm tells a walnut almond and blue bear was actually really good mr. bacon can they say something about beggin pretty sure I remember reading bacon bacon are you in that legacy piece oh yeah mm-hmm let's pretty good I'm liking this got real substance with all the doll the elk jerky no antibiotics no hormones and no animal by-products Wow it's 14 grams and find this that's pretty awesome 17 grams of protein that's pretty good 12% iron for the day Wow 20% vitamin C first impression of the canadian flavored paleo kit system is the company right here that makes home Steve's Paleo goods handcrafted in small batches at in New Jersey okay right on it's what snack I'm gonna say Steve Roger that cool well I'm gonna enjoy my snack here I'm starting to feel revitalized alright like the mix huh protein jerky I've got protein from nuts and fats what alkalinity do the almonds natural sugars the blueberries come fiber with the almonds alone the walnuts and of course the D help jerky kicks it way up add the bacon for some saltiness and it's a nice fattiness tomorrow eat this more I like it Chris call you you're off bro Gary for the knife sweep catch you guys later all right less than one mile from [Music]

almost there girls are pretty intense I've gone gone up some pretty steep hills and down I mean intense pretty intense stuff it was cool really enjoyed it it was very very dynamic Road think I'm like this is 0.3 miles the rotary and such eze Acadian rotary no is it no no not yet

spoke to you soon not quite I'm supposed to go this way all right here it is BAM

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it's fine look straight ahead Canada

yeah

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gates and such all right I'm gonna catch you guys later huh thinks it's time to get serious delving deeper into the complex and here's the bridge there it is right there passing the international waterway [Music]

welcome to Canada I'm gonna go straight because I'm a car all right I'm out of here on my way out of this place there it is right there [Music]

woman at the window I spoke to you looked at my passport all that she was very very nice asked me about your questions you know what I do for work or do I live where am I going home her to be there blah blah blah right good stuff I never was all said and done she was like all right right on I'm like okay she's like okay can I close the window like okay we're right on off we go my map says I have 148 miles to drive until I take my next turn so I'm gonna get on that [Music]

file gets really bad sometime I'm just pulling out of it it was so bad I couldn't even see like ten feet in front of my truck is crazy some really bad folks tonight gone through several constantly going through little dips and valleys

right on the edge of the ocean here so it will clear out like it just did now

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here comes some fog again already just a little strips here and there and then as I continually go down the game these cars are probably whereas it gets oh yeah just went through a patch I mean really it was like 10 feet I echo slowed way down [Music]

fifteen miles an hour [Music]

before that I was going like 75 it was like I just slammed my brakes on pretty far in [Music]

already past st. John quite a while ago and an East also noticed it was it's a lot colder up here I had the AC on for like 90 percent of the trip like you know basically until idea Canada [Music]

it was about two degrees at my house like yesterday you know a guy left it was like 95 today something like that just brutally hot burly sweaty right now it's 50 degrees so it might be dipping into the 40's tonight quite a temperature drop I wonder what it is during the day here maybe like 70s other jobs like 20 degrees or so Valley to my left shrouded in fog crazy

or she cameras picking it up to see Hills just the peaks I can see a good distance and all I see is fall down [Music]

mr. shroud and crawls in off the valleys 7:00 a.m. good morning beautiful land out here drove until 3:00 in the morning left my house yesterday at noon so I put it in a good day on the road I had a couple stops along the way wasn't all driving gotta keep moving on [Music]

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the ocean take a large Marsh right here [Music]

no way in the back on both sides of the road like more trees at all I'm almost froze here [Music]

hurt bread dirt is like the ready charge [Music]

with Scotia welcome sign [Music]

massive windows [Music]

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sunrise trails scenic route to keep Britain

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so not only do they have bright dirt I've seen inside the streams rivers on the side of the road the road itself a lot of these roads having red pigment [Music]

that's after he accustomed comes back and forth sees a change from red to grey [Music]

how's that for the classic farm like an Orange River [Music]

it's a nice old house [Music]

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nice country out there so does peace that farmhouse with a Halifax region [Music]

down to dirt now [Music]

just a lot of woods here a lot of sky a lot of room it's nice hardly any development at all I've noticed for majority Nova Scotia even before they're just like on the main there's just it's not a lot of development

which is nice because then you have you know as much a nature around you as possible

fake Trachsel and [Music]

that's modest houses in there I love that [Music]

About the Author

NativeSurvival

NativeSurvival

Mitch is a Wilderness Living Skills Instructor, he has been featured on The History Channel's program "ALONE" and written articles for Outdoor Magazines; he owns and operates The Native Survival School which provides woodland living and survival classes, as well as offering quality outdoor gear he's designed. Defintely, he is a master at bushcraft's techniques.

You can find all his videos on his YouTube channel.

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