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HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON A TRAIN ACROSS CANADA?

I yesterday summarized the two cruise segments of our recent 50-day trip, and half those days were in Canada, mostly on VIA Rail Canada and Rocky Mountaineer trains, both with no WiFi.  Somehow, I think I only missed a couple of days of posts.  And some amazing good news.  The SJourney train trip we are taking from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi at the end of the year does have WiFi. Interestingly enough, during this current travel period, my original blog site, which had been averaging 500 visits/day for the first 15 years, jumped to 25,000/day.  For reasons I can't explain, this surge began from the American Melody cruise, Memphis to New Orleans, and continued on through Canada. This Canadian train trip changed my mind about trains. Turns out that the only time I slept overnight on a train was on VIA Rail Canada, a four-day ride in December of 2017 from Vancouver to Toronto . Passengers were peeved because we arrive half a day late.  Why? What happened about a year...

BANFF: A Couple of Highlights

My next couple of days will involve travel on the Rocky Mountaineer, which has no WiFi.  I will thus try to insert a daily mini-post, providing highlights, to be followed by full tour details when I get to Vancouver.  Thus, today, just a couple videos and photos of our stay in Banff.  We saw an assortment of wild animals yesterday.  Bighorn sheep at the top of the Banff Gondola. This current internet system takes forever to download a video to You Tube, but should eventually clear sometime today. A video of Emerald Lake. Our Cinco de Mayo lunch. Today we board the Rocky Mountaineer to Kamloops. -