Steps to Anywhere – A Travel Journal
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
This is the transition point so to make photos a little more accessible. Hopefully this note will reduce confusion at the risk of creating it instead.
Photos from the road trip west may be found under the Photo Gallery menu West Coast Road Trip 2022 item.
The sidebar will start collecting photos from the Rocky Mountaineer. These are also available in the Photo Gallery menu Rocky Mountaineer 2022 item.
We left Thunder Bay this morning in rain which continued at varying intensities until about 10 AM EDT. This was a time change day. All the electronics automatically changed to CDT but I will have to take a course before I change the car’s clock. Why can’t it change automatically too. It has GPS access and cellular access for the BlueLink remote control but apparently, the clock is too hard to do.
It takes the best part of three days to get out of Ontario. Sitting at 96° 48’ 35” W, situated in the town of Tache, Manitoba, just 30 minutes or so from the province’s capital city of Winnipeg is the Longitudinal Center of Canada. I know many Ontario’s think they own the centre but geographically it’s not so.
Continue Reading →Firstly, thanks to those of you who have taken a moment to type reply to the last couple of posts. It adds texture to the journal. Your comments and questions are welcome additions.
I’m pretty sure we have seriously over packed but that’s what happens when you are not required to comply with air line luggage weights. We also have to consider the possibility of cooler temperatures traveling in autumn with stops in higher altitudes. Never-the-less, it all fit nicely into the car.
Today started in Burlington with a cloudy sky but a couple of hours later there was barely a cloud in the sky. We finished the day in Sault Ste Marie, 745 km later. We always pack a sandwich and today we stopped for lunch and fuel in the Canadian Tire parking lot which also featured, what else, a Tim Hortons.
Continue Reading →Don’t blame me, the title was Gail’s idea. It will likely be the final post of this trip. In summary, it was the coolest and roughest Pacific crossing ever. Three out of four days in Hawaii were great, only the storm on our second day on the islands caused problems. We skipped the port of Kauai, the Captain opting to wait out the storm in Honolulu. As it turned out the weather was bad on all the islands that day.
It was still a lovely way to enjoy the holidays. The food was good as was the entertainment. We encountered quite a few passengers with whom we knew from previous Christmas cruises. Dancing was good, musically, and better when the floor was staying in one place. It turns out that roller coaster dancing is not so easy.
The disembarkation went smoothly and we were off of the ship, with luggage and on board the bus for our transfer to LAX by 8:15 AM. We arrived at LAX Terminal 2 about 9:00 AM. There was no-one at the Westjet check-in counter and we were not charged for our checked bags. I did not challenge that decision. LAX is under construction, again, and what airport is not? After the check-in process in Terminal 2 we were directed to our boarding gate in Terminal 3. It was not a long trek although we did have to walk outside to pass the construction zone.
Now all we can do is wait. Hope the weather is favourable or our return.
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.