Farewell to Canada….

This last stretch to Vancouver is manic. As I write I am sitting in the bus, hours late for our rendez-vous with Vancouver. We’ll be lucky if we get there by midday, when we were due there at about 9am, after another fun-filled overnight drive. Leaving Banff after a night on the bus (parked inContinue reading “Farewell to Canada….”

At last – Dave and Lilli!!

There is something a little surreal about a group of people pouring out of a bus into the washrooms of a visitors’ centre in the cool and drizzle of the morning. So there I stood, with a small audience, having a standup wash and changing bra and T-shirt in a public toilet somewhere near MountContinue reading “At last – Dave and Lilli!!”

Dancing girls in Dawson! Whitehorse and the mountains…

From the Top of the World road we began the long winding descent, catching sight occasionally of the Yukon river snaking far below. We eventually reached the river itself, but not on the Dawson City side, so took a ferry across in the blazing sunshine. We’re here till midnight, after which we do the nightContinue reading “Dancing girls in Dawson! Whitehorse and the mountains…”