We’ve spent the last couple of days in Acadia National Park as we make our way up the North East coast of the US and back towards Eastern Canada. We took a fairly scenic drive along the coast to get here from Portland, via some nice fishing villages and with a nice stop by a lake for lunch. Acadia National Park is spread out over quite a large area as you can see from the map above. We’re staying over…
We had quite a busy last day in Boston before we moved on to our next stop, which is where we are now, in Portland (Maine, not Portland Oregon). On our last day in Boston we went on a student-led historical tour of the Harvard University campus. It was an interesting hour-long tour around the campus, hearing the history of various buildings and the university as a whole, and getting to learn more about the whole place. Our guide was…
We did this on our last trip, and we thought it would be fun to try and do the same for each portion of our Canada trip too this time. Based on a defined list of categories, we’ve each independently thought of our highlights for our time in Western Canada. Some of them may end up being the same, but let’s see. Si’s Picks Best stop It’s a close call between Whistler and Banff but I think I’m going to…
We’ve spent the last couple of days in Calgary on the last stop of our Canadian West Coast trip. We fly tomorrow from Calgary to Boston to start the East coast portion, and we’ve had a bit more of a chill out while we’ve been here in Calgary really to recover from all the hiking we’ve been doing. Our Airbnb is really nice and comfy so it’s been a nice place to hang out, it’s got a huge TV so…
After our long scenic drive to Banff yesterday (check it out if you missed that post), we spent our first day in the area visiting Lake Louise and the nearby Moraine Lake, two of the most famous and visited lakes in the Canadian Rockies. You can’t actually drive to these lakes, they’re so popular and Lake Louise only has a very small car park (which fills up by 5am for sunrise), and the road to Moraine Lake is blocked to…
After a few days in Clearwater we drove a couple of hours to our next stop which is in Valemount, an area a little outside of the well-known Jasper National Park. We are staying here to be near to the (apparently equally nice) Mount Robson Provincial Park and so we could stay somewhere a bit more remote and less busy than Jasper. We’ve got a really nice Airbnb cabin in the woods, it’s pretty massive for just the two of…
We’ve spent the last couple of days in an area called Revelstoke, adjacent to two different National Parks – Mount Revelstoke NP and Glacier NP. It was a couple of hours drive from Vernon where we’d been staying before, but lots to do here in a short visit. On the day we arrived we checked in to our Airbnb a bit early around lunch time, and then headed out to Mount Revelstoke which is right near town. In the summer…
We’ve spent the last 2 days of our trip in a small town called Merritt which we used as a base to break up the long travel distances as we move across Western Canada. We were originally attracted to Merritt because it is promoted as the “country music capital of Canada”, although to be honest, there’s very little sign of that at all! They do have an annual country music festival, but that’s in August, and some murals of country…
This post comes very soon after our last post from Day 3 in Vancouver, so if you missed that you can find it here. Today we left Vancouver after a busy 3 days around the city to move on to our next destination which is Whistler, up in the mountains. On the drive there we stopped at various different places which were along the route. We made a quick stop by the ‘Murdo Frazer cabin’ which probably won’t mean much…
Ouch, my legs….only kidding, although it was a very tough uphill climb the day before at the Grouse Grind, we decided it would be a “good” idea to go on another long walk around Vancouver city yesterday on our last day there. We caught the Sky Train in to town and started by visiting the VanDusen Botanical Gardens, a really nice area to wander around a little outside of the downtown area. They had loads of different areas to wander…