Take a Road Trip with Friends

Big White Ski Resort, BC Canada

This is an extract from one of my travel journals while I was working in Canada at a ski field and the week I got back from Canada.

After finishing work at Grouse Mountain at 3pm our crew (known as work as A Crew) took two cars, a GPS, monster energy drinks and packed the car with snowboards and made the six hour trip to Big White, for an amazing two day road trip.

Big White Ski Resort, or Simply Big White, is a ski resort located 56 km southeast of Kelowna. It is the second largest resort in British Columbia after Whistler-Blackcomb and is the sister resort of Silver Star Mountain Resort. The resort is seriously recommended if your into knee deep POW POW and the tracks are some of 7km in length. Keep tabs on your buddies, because you will loose them sometimes in that big white fog.

There are some good bars, places to eat, night life and cheap ski in ski out hostels.

With this road trip, we found the road was quite dangerous, it was windy and there were a lot of semi trailers on the windy mountain highway.

Brisbane to Sydney

Brisbane to Sydney was another trip I made after getting back from Canada with a friend from university. It took us eleven hours straight, only stopping for petrol along the coastal road. We left on the Friday night and left Sydney on the Sunday morning to drive back to Brisbane for class on Monday. The trip definitely requires a lot of monster energy drinks, snacks and a good iPod playlist!

Also note, that if you are driving back to Brisbane through the night, keep an eye on the petrol gage! We realised on our way back that small country towns seem to close their petrol stations at night, we actually drove for 81km's with the fuel gage on empty. We actually pulled into a police station so they could direct us to the closest petrol station, so if this happens search for a police station where you could get help, especially safety is so important when its just you and one of your girlfriends travelling alone. I would also recommend taking more people for this trip so you can take it in turns to drive, and take rests as we didn't and we were exhausted in Sydney and after the drive back. ~ V