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A High School Outing For Senior Citizens
So we do something that turns out to be a little unusual. We take the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver to Jasper and then back to Vancouver from Banff. Unusual because it seems that most of our fellow passengers (at least in the Gold Leaf dome cars that we travel in) are on a one way package, starti...
It's A Clear Day And I Can See China!
John prepares a final breakfast for us and we part company planning to meet up again at Moraine Lake. From Jasper we drive the Ice Fields Parkway southeast towards Lake Louise and Banff. Described by National Geographic as one of the world's top scenic drives, it would indeed be hard not to be blown...
How Do You Like Your Eggs?
With 285 miles already behind us since we left Vancouver, we bid farewell to Kamloops (at least for a few days) and set off on the 12 hour, 309 mile journey to Jasper in the Canadian Rockies. The train ambles along at a very leisurely pace and makes frequent stops in sidings to allow two mile long f...
Don't Shoot The Piano Player
It's been an odd few days. A weekend in New York to mark Endo's 20th anniversary was cancelled at very short notice. We all hope that Carol's badly broken ankle heals soon! Then we found out quite by accident that our intended few days in Alaska's Denali National Park, which was to follow on the wee...