Capitol Hill and Volunteer Park
2024年3月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 45 °F
After some false starts and course corrections, I eventually made my way to Volunteer Park atop Capitol Hill. It has this very well placed statue that frames the Space Needle perfectly. It is alsoもっと詳しく
Zoom and dominoes
2024年3月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 46 °F
I got back to the hotel in plenty of time to eat lunch and get set up for my weekly session of dominoes over zoom with my family.
Unfortunately, by the time we finished that, it was very clear to meもっと詳しく
Train to Vancouver
2024年3月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 41 °F
[Written March 11. Sorry for the delay! The sickness turned into a cold that wasn't terrible, but it did sap my energy so much that I couldn't blog. So now I will get this caught up!]
Even though weもっと詳しく
First meal in Vancouver
2024年3月8日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 43 °F
We arrived in Vancouver and there was a Canada goose there to greet us right outside the train station.
Before long we had made it to our hotel (Exchange Hotel). It was before checkin time, so ourもっと詳しく
Bike Tour Vancouver
2024年3月9日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 46 °F
After a good night's sleep, we got up and dosed with Airborne. The bike shop is just a few blocks from the hotel, so we stopped at a Tim Horton's for coffee and a little snack on our way.
We got ourもっと詳しく
Steakhouse dinner
2024年3月9日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 43 °F
We were both a bit tired after the ride, so rather than explore more, we headed back to the room to regroup and make dinner plans. Since it was Saturday night, and we hadn't made reservations, ourもっと詳しく
Book shopping
2024年3月10日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 45 °F
Patricia mentioned that there was an entertaining book set on the cross Canada train so I decided to head off to a nearby used bookstore to see if I could find a copy.
I wasn't very optimistic,もっと詳しく
Hotel EXchange elevators
2024年3月10日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 45 °F
One cool thing about this hotel is that there are no floor buttons on the inside of the elevators. Before you get on, you select the floor you want to go to and you are directed to one of a bank ofもっと詳しく
Vancouver water scenes
2024年3月10日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 43 °F
After my nap, I decided to go out and walk around the seawall to explore some of the sights we biked by in more depth. Russell was out biking so I went on my own.
Last dinner in Vancouver
2024年3月10日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 45 °F
Russell had made dinner reservations at per se, which has nothing to do with the New York per se, but it was well recommended. Deservedly so.
On our way back to hotel, we passed a very high endもっと詳しく
Last morning in Vancouver
2024年3月11日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 43 °F
The next morning, we were in no hurry, so we leisurely packed up before the noon checkout. Then we headed back to the Trees coffee house for our morning sustenance.
Then we both headed over to theもっと詳しく
All aboard The Canadian
2024年3月11日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 45 °F
By the time I got back to the train station, it was time to board. I took a quick look at the lounge for sleeper passengers and then headed out to my train car.
Each car has an individual name. Myもっと詳しく
Evening on The Canadian
2024年3月11日, カナダ ⋅ 🌧 43 °F
We left Vancouver and headed up the Frasier River valley. It was very pretty, but it was quite rainy, so it was near impossible to get good pictures through the raindrops.
The first person I met onもっと詳しく
Morning in BC
2024年3月12日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °F
I awoke to find that we had been transported to a winter wonderland. Even in the predawn light, the scenery was awe-inspiring.
I sat looking out the window so long, I almost missed breakfast. But Iもっと詳しく
Jasper, AB
2024年3月12日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F
Shortly before 1 pm we arrived in Jasper. We only had about 45 minutes to wander around the town but that was enough time to do a little shopping and to sample a small beer (hand shown for scale) fromもっと詳しく
More mountains
2024年3月12日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 41 °F
After Jasper it was time for lunch and more phenomenal scenery, all afternoon.
At one point we passed a coal train that must have been over 100 cars long.
End of magical day
2024年3月12日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 45 °F
The train enthusiast I met on the way to Seattle, said that when you are on the train, the days when you wake up on the train and then go to bed on the train are the most magical days. And at someもっと詳しく
Saskatoon SK
2024年3月13日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °F
I slept very well, and almost slept past breakfast, but I made it in just before they closed. I didn't take a picture, but I ordered the exact same thing as yesterday, so just scroll back.
We are nowもっと詳しく
Melville, SK
2024年3月13日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 34 °F
Our next stop was Melville. This was a very brief stop, so we were cautioned (ordered?) to not leave the platform. It appears that a local retailer was determined to lure passengers to their shop withもっと詳しく
Leaving the prairies
2024年3月13日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 34 °F
In the afternoon/evening, the scenery started to get more trees and other interesting formations.
I ate dinner (alas, no picture again) with two women passengers I had met before. I had to make the,もっと詳しく
Winnipeg, MB
2024年3月13日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 32 °F
After dinner, we had a late night stop in Winnipeg. This is a crew change stop so all the service staff got off and a whole new crew of sleeping car attendants, dining and bar car staff all got onもっと詳しく
Sunrise in In Ontario
2024年3月14日, カナダ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °F
I had a pretty good night's sleep and didn't wake up until the sun was already up. Overnight we have transitioned back into forests.
It made me think of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, but we areもっと詳しく
Afternoon in Ontario
2024年3月14日, カナダ ⋅ ☀️ 32 °F
I had a nice lunch (forgot the photo again!) with three new people: an older couple from Utah and a younger man (under 50) who is a Catholic priest from Delaware. All three are traveling in theもっと詳しく
Hornepayne, ON
2024年3月14日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 34 °F
Our next stop was a very very tiny town (about 1000 people). Normally, we would stop here for about 45 minutes, as they refilled the water tanks. But today, since we were early, it was more like a 2.5もっと詳しく
Last sunset on The Canadian
2024年3月14日, カナダ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °F
After dinner I headed into the Park car to enjoy some after dinner drinks and views. The sunset put on the best show I have seen on this trip. Since we we were in the last car heading east, we gotもっと詳しく













































































































The last two photos are peculiar. Is there a tree growing through the tower? a bag of green onions?? You've covered a quite a bit of Seattle on foot. Good for you!! [V]
Sarah McCabeThe tree is part of the sculpture. And the bags of green onions were just on the sidewalk like somebody lost part of their grocery order. 😄
Very cool pictures! Just now got my copy of Train Adventures! This looks like a wonderful way to travel . When Paul and I get old ( stop laughing) we can travel by train . Thanks [Lynn]