Daily updates

When we went to sleep on Wednesday night we were expecting to wake up in Vancouver as our train was running slightly ahead of schedule. But, when I woke up at 6:30 and saw that we were stopped in a canyon of evergreens I knew that we definitely were not in Vancouver. Turns out there…

I woke up as we were pulling into Jasper and had a couple of hours to walk around. Not much was open, though there was a fantastic coffee shop where I got a large latte that was absolutely enormous! I walked around town and took pictures of the surrounding mountains, totem pole and chatted with…

Got up a little bit later this morning, but still woke up in time to see the day starting to lighten, then went up to the dome car and enjoyed a gorgeous sunrise. It’s migration time for the snow geese, we saw hundreds of birds flying together in the sky or stopping for a snack…

I woke up around 5 o’clock this morning, we had moved to the central time zone, though because I don’t have Internet my phone hadn’t updated to the correct time. I listened to my audiobook for awhile – I am listening to Matthew Perry‘s autobiography, Friends, Lovers and the Big, Terrible Thing. It’s fascinating how many…

 got up and out of the Airbnb with my usual travel worries that the train will be canceled or late or there will be other issues getting to Union station on time, but everything worked out well. I got my bag checked in and got my meal time assignments for lunch and dinner and went…

The temperature has dropped quite a bit, going from 82 on Thursday to 70 on Friday and the high today is predicted to be 60, so definitely heading into fall weather. As I walked around the neighborhood I’m staying in I realized that many of the large houses are actually duplexes, and often have completely…

I woke up in time to see the dawn this morning, gorgeous red clouds in the sky. After packing up, I walked to the train station past the car art, the 1976 Olympic flame sculpture (that is the first Olympics I watched on tv- I’ll never forget Nadia Comaneci), and the Dendrites sculptures. I don’t…

Today was my last full day in Montreal. As I seem to do when I’ve been someplace for a few days and have been very busy, I didn’t do quite as much today, though I was still relatively active. I hopped on the metro again and went out to Biosphère, which was part of Expo…

Today I learned more about Montréal’s history at two very different museums, had delicious sandwiches, took the metro for the first time and saw more street art.  On my walk to the Pointe á Callière museum I saw several sculptures, and stopped for coffee at the Crew Collective and Cafe, a coffee shop and co-working…

Last night I was having trouble getting to sleep, not because I had coffee late in the day, I think it was because of the weekly family zoom call. It’s at 10 PM my time which means we don’t get done till 11 and I think I was just too wired from chatting with my…