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...

The ship WiFi worked fine until the past 36 hours.  Something about crossing the equator.  I guess no one lives in this part of the Pacific we just sailed through, so there is no coverage.  Finally at 11PM, it's on again.  Return in 16 hours for my next posting, for I need to sleep, then the usual things one does on a cruise, before returning to my computer. Aloha. Pat