WATCH: You can’t beat a good summer road trip, and as Gil Tucker shows us, for a Strathmore family the mode of transportation is just as exciting as the destination.
CALGARY – It’ll be a road trip to remember for the Steadman family of Strathmore – but the most memorable parts of the journey will come not along roads, but on rivers.
They’ll be travelling by hovercraft for about half of their two-week trip around Alberta, along rivers like the Bow, the Oldman and the Athabasca.
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Most commonly used for rescues, the Steadmans believe theirs is the only privately-owned hovercraft in the Calgary area.
Costing $30,000, it was delivered in late May from a factory in Indiana.
They’ll be able to use it year-round, hovering over grass fields, snow and ice.
The Alberta trip they’re leaving on Saturday is just a warm-up for an adventure the family’s planning for next summer.
They’re hoping to hover along rivers on a journey across Canada.
If they make it, they say it’ll be the first time anyone’s gone coast-to-coast in a hovercraft.
Even though it might be able to handle roads, they’ll be trailering it between rivers during all their travels.
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