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...

The  O  in  O Canada,  the national anthem of the country, acts as a vocative exclamation used to directly address the country with strong emotion, and is a declaration of love, loyalty and protection for the nation, highlighting its natural beauty, history and promise of freedom and strength.  About Canada: Is geographically larger than the USA, 3.855 million square miles to 3.678 million square miles. #1 is Russia 6.6 million sq. mi., with China #3 at 3.705 sq. mi.  Canada is #2 and U.S #4., with Brazil #5 at 3.288 sq. mi. Has the longest coastline of any country. Population of over 41 million, with a density of 11 inhabitants/square mile, one of the lowest in the world. Ten provinces ( like U.S. states ) and three territories. Recent history. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited Canada going back thousands of years. British and French expeditions came in the 16th century. Through armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North...