22 - 29 May 2010 Vancouver has been a recovery spot for us after 2 months of constant travel, change, work and jet lag. We stayed in a spacious apartment in the western part of Downtown with views toward Granville island, the North Shore, the "Rainbow" neighbourhood and community gardens - great spot as it was in walking distance to all that we did. Vancouver is a stunning city - surrounded by water, rich with vegetation and birdlife - the business di...

20-21 May 2010 The Rocky Mountaineer train trip from Calgary to Vancouver Mountains, water and green forests surrounded us as we became passengers on the famous Rocky Mountaineer train to travel from Calgary to Vancouver. We booked to travel on the Gold Leaf class of this train and it proved to be a decadent experience, from checking-in at Calgary to arriving in Vancouver. We were warmly greeted at the train station at the base of Calgary's Sky Tower after bei...

20 May 2010 We wish to dedicate the Calgary blog entry to Sue, Dan and Olive who hosted us on a gastronomic extravaganza in Calgary and a wondrous exploration of the Canadian Rockies. After our very early departure from Winters, we returned the car to Sacramento airport and jumped on a very small (60 seater) plane to San Francisco where we got our connection to Calgary. Calgary is approximately 1000m above sea level and is nestled amongst the Canadian Rocky Mou...

11 - 17 May 2010 Our travels have taken us far and wide since our update from Cuba - we have been having a brilliant time and hope to capture some of our time in this blog. On leaving Cuba we headed back to the USA via Canada, however we had the delight of being stranded in Toronto for the night because of hurricane weather in Chicago. It was very interesting going through Canadian and US immigration and customs twice in a twelve hour period at the same airpor...

11 - 17 May 2010 Our travels have taken us far and wide since our update from Cuba - we have been having a brilliant time and hope to capture some of our time in this blog. On leaving Cuba we headed back to the USA via Canada, however we had the delight of being stranded in Toronto for the night because of hurricane weather in Chicago. It was very interesting going through Canadian and US immigration and customs twice in a twelve hour period at the same airpor...