Home, sweet home...
2017年9月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 17 °CAfter a very ordinary 13 and a half hour flight from Vancouver, on what must have been the plane with the worst seats in the fleet (I have pressure areas on my butt from the hard hard seat!), weもっと詳しく
After a very ordinary 13 and a half hour flight from Vancouver, on what must have been the plane with the worst seats in the fleet (I have pressure areas on my butt from the hard hard seat!), weもっと詳しく
Well the day has come where we have to return home... I write this sitting at Vancouver Airport, with our steel chariot sitting on the runway.
We started the day at a Cafe for breaking, pleasant butもっと詳しく
Today we crossed the border from Bellingham to Vancouver, a distance of only 54 miles. The border crossing is only about 25 miles from Bellingham, so it was again good to be back in metric!!!
Weもっと詳しく
Today we explored Seattle, Washington. It was a public holiday (Labour Day) here, and people were everywhere!
We went up the Space Needle, erected in less than a year for the 1962 World's Fair. Goodもっと詳しく
We had a leisurely start, and having our own kitchen for the first time in weeks, decided we would feast on fresh eggs and Canadian bacon (do they just call it bacon here?😜). Lovely. I hadもっと詳しく
Today, we regrettably left Whistler, with a promise to return when the White stuff is plentiful.
We needed to scoot back towards Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay for our ferry to the capital city ofもっと詳しく
Today we left Alberta, and headed back into British Colombia for Whistler. First stop was a great bakery in Jasper for breakfast and coffee, before hitting the road. It's a long hike, so stay tunedもっと詳しく
From Lake Louise, we headed north towards Jasper on the Ice fields Parkway, retracing a journey Paul took many years ago in Winter.
The scenery was amazing, with the Rocky Mountains as the backdrop,もっと詳しく
Lake Louise certainly lived up to expectation, it was stunningly beautiful. What I was not prepared for was the sheer volume of tourists there...wow. The Chateau was beautiful, and we had afternoonもっと詳しく
On disembarking, we encountered the least efficient rental car operation we have ever come across. 2 hours of waiting, two agents, extremely slow. Ugh! Eventually, we got our vehicle. We ordered aもっと詳しく