Day 29 was the start of the Rockies tour and we were all up before 7am. Most of us grabbed breakfast before meeting our new tour guide John. We quickly learned that it was a tour guide trait to be a bit scatty as John drove off without locking the luggage cupboard on the back of the bus. Luckily we felt a bag fell off straight away so we noticed and stopped! We went back into downtown to reluctantly pick up the newbies (hooray - we were now part of the gang!) Luc...

We're back!!Sorry you've had to endure almost two weeks with no blog. Hopefully this will demonstrate why we haven't updated it in so long! I hope we remember everything. Day 27, Sunday, saw the beginning of our tour of the Rockies with an operator called Moose Travel. We caught a taxi to our pick up point and boarded a 24 seater mini bus that would be our transportation for the next nine days. There was a small group of people already on board that had complete...

Days 25 / 26We arrived in Vancouver safely and went through customs quite quickly. We quickly located our hostel 100 yards from the station and were allowed to check in early. Not the best place we've stayed in so far, in fact it may be contending for worst place, it had no air con and was in the same building as a nightclub.We went for a mooch around and discovered once again we were right next to Chinatown so we soaked up the atmosphere, did a little shopping a...

Days 22/23/24 Hi everyone, hope you are having a fab weekend! Day 22 started really early with a 5:30am alarm for breakfast on the train on the way to Seattle. We got our meals included in our sleeper ticket and as we missed dinner the night before because the train was late there was definitely no way we were missing breakfast! They close the dining car a couple of hours before the train reaches its destination and sure enough just as we'd finished eating ther...

Day 20 / 21 Hello everybody! How y'all doing? Dan's doing a separate blog entirely focussing on our train journey from Chicago to Seattle via West Glacier, which leaves me to concentrate on our stop over in the Glacier National Park. Where to start?? This really was an amazing 48 hours, completely mind blowing. first of all we were picked up from the train station by the car hire people and whisked up the road to their office. After a couple of forms ...