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...

This will again be a shortened version of my blog, for we have one more tour and I can squeeze in a short posting.  From tomorrow, back to normal in Vancouver. A few videos and photos from our final Rocky Mountaineer ride from Kamloops to Vancouver.  Enjoy the palm of my hand, Actually, we are departing Kamloops, not Banff. Lunch announcement on the Rocky Mountaineer. End of lunch. Fraser River, which we followed all day. A wonderful, yet mottled, ride.  With interminable delays, we finally reached the Rocky Mountaineer station in Vancouver.  You would think that all trains end up in the same spot, but the Rocky Mountaineer has its own terminal.  Come to think of it.  All of our stops were in their stations. Amazingly enough, all five pieces of our luggage were awaiting on a cart, and one of their staff members pushed it to a taxi, which, at their cost, took us to the Blue Horizons hotel.  Photo from our room just after sunset.  Across the street ...