After Toronto I started on my 3 day rail trip to Vancouver. The day sarted with a bang! A five minute walk to the main line station was undertaken in a thunderstorm! So a drenched Chris arrived for an adventure lasting three days. The train was huge! over twenty coaches pulled by three engines. Each section had it sown dining car, games car and roof observation car. Meals were provided three times a day. For me they gave me fruit salad, cornflakes and unbuttered toast and jam! Lunch I had salad, and fruit salad. Evening meal they usually had to improvise a vegetarian meal to make it vegan, but they alweays suceeded. We were given champagne on the first and last day. and because my table won the lottery we had a bottle at our first meal as well!
Whislt eating our evining meal our seating compartments were turned into bedrooms (double bunks each side). A New Zealand had the opposite bunks. Curtains separtated us from the central passsage. The games room had many board games etc available, and it was the place to watch the nightly videos. In the day light hours the observation towers were usually full, with much snapping of cameras, and discussion. The first couple I got talking to were from America and had the same surname as myself.

We had a about two stops per day for us to get off the train and streach our legs.

On arrival at Vancouver at 8 am I was met by Sharon, and was taken to the flat she shared with Sharleen. and their three cats. Her I dipped my fingers in the Pacific for the first time!, and on the Sunday Sharon and I flew to Whitehouse for the start of my Yukon adventure. Here we celebrated Thanksgiving with Wendy and her family before the long drive to Ross River, the 300 strong town in first nation country, where many people were related to Sharon. I met many interesting people here and enjoyed my first venture into the Yukon bush on an 8 wheeled Argo. We were staying at a very interesting guesthouse in an isolated part of the Yukon near Ross River..

We returned to Whitehouse and to Vancover today.

Shortly (on Saturday 14th Oct) I will be leaving Canada and going to America, and meeting my friends Maggie & Teri in Seattle area.


Well folks that's all at present.

Still trying to up load photos to a website.

*SMILES*

Chris