I'm back.  However, return in a few hours for an actual new posting. Arrgghh, the horror, the horror.  Boarded the Canadian Railway train and learned that there would be no internet for three days. If I knew that ahead of time, I would not have taken this train journey.  Was this part of the trip worth it?  Well, yes, and you'll learn about what we saw and did over the next couple of days. I did not realize that overnight trains were so minimal, so limiting, so uncomfortable and so dangerous.  Just walking to lunch is an adventure.  I get close to falling in a safe, walking environment.  On this train, the floor and walls are moving, it's noisy and you need to leave your train and walk to the next in bitter cold.  There has been snow on the ground through the entire 3-day period. Anyway, I'm now in the Chateau Jasper for one night, and over the next two days in Banff and Lake Louise will still be in hotels, which surely will have internet.  T...

All went well today on our most significant tour of the entire trip:  Toronto to Niagara Falls and back, a nearly 10-hour extravaganza.  First, breakfast at the Fairmont Royal York's Gold Lounge. Then off we went, with twenty-something others. While line of sight is less than 43 miles, the actual ride is around 80 miles because we needed to go aroung Lake Ontario.  The falls themselves spill water from Lake Erie towards Lake Ontario. The guide pointed out various agricultural highlights, including wineries.  There are over 100 of them within the Niagara region of Ontario.  Bought a bottle of Meritage. You would think these greenhouses protect vines or other ag products, but these fancy looking ones actually cover marijuana. Recreational cannabis became legal in Canada in 2018, and adults older than 18 can possess up to 30 grams of legal dried marijuana and grow up to four plants/household.  In the U.S., while 24 states have legalized recreational uses and 4...