Hello from Calgary, Alberta. I'm now in the middle of my promised tour of the Rockies and Alberta in winter. I'm feeling pretty good now, but last night and today have had their share of trials. It turns out that I can't sleep as well on buses as I can on aircraft, and so my overnight Greyhound run from Abbotsford to Lake Louise wasn't the most restful experience. I dozed fitfully between Merritt and Kamloops, and again between Kamloops an...

Continuing on from my previous post... I've been interested in going to Calgary for a while. It's the first decent-sized city that I've visited that isn't on a coastline, which makes it something of an oddity to me. I went up the Calgary Tower in the city centre after lunch, and was able to look all around at the city limits and beyond. Calgary sits astride the Bow River, an hour or so to the East of the edge of the Rockies at the start of ...

A quick hello from Calgary, Alberta. I left Abbotsford on a 7am Greyhound under a grey sky on Monday for the long drive east to the Rockies. We followed the Trans-Canada Highway, and after an hour or so we had passed hope and were out of the Valley and climbing into the mountainous interior of British Columbia. There were three major ranges to cross - the Cascades, the Columbias and finally, the Rockies themselves. The sky was still gr...