What a thrill it is to outrun the world for a few days, to dip out of cellphone range and live in a zone of uninterrupted motion. Hurtle across Canada on the 7,821-km Trans-Canada Highway, and you’ll touch two oceans and sweep through alpine meadows, valleys of fruit, sagebrush plains, the rocky spine of the Canadian Shield, lake after lake and forest after forest. If you can’t see our entire country by highway, pick one province, a piece of blacktop and take the nearest entry ramp. Read more. And while you’re at it, stop for a festival or two. Read more.