Drove to Jasper, 2 days drive stopping overnight in Kamloops. The drive from Whistler to Jasper passed through some contrasting scenery. Tree covered mountains, snowy peaks, then desert landsscapes with salt flats. Stopped at our first glacier lake, don't worry loads of photos of these, but you can't really believe the colour till you see it for real. We stopped off at 3 impressive waterfalls, and also spotted our first wild black bears, luckily in the distance. ...

Sorry for delay in updates struggled to get on net while in Rockies. So here we go. Our first stop from Vancouver was Whistler. Which was a lovely drive up the coast, on the sea to sky highway, passing through some nice little villages on the waterfront. Even passed people scuba diving in the crystal clear water. Stopped at Shannon Falls which is 3 times higher than Niagara, although not nearly as impressive. Checked into the wonderful Delta hotel in Whistler, th...

On wednesday we caught the seabus across to North Vancouver to go up Grouse Mountain. We went up most of the way on a cable car which took about 15 swaying minutes to get there. Once there we had unobstructed views as far as the eye could see back across vancouver, out to vancouver island (as far as the washington state US border) and snow capped mountains in the opposire direction. We strolled around taking in huge lungs fulls of mountain crisp air ( you could a...

Arrived in Vancouver very early tuesday morning about 4am local time. The plane had been delayed an hour and it was full of toddlers screaming for much of the 6 hour flight. Arrived at the lovely Barclay Hotel (it comes highly recommended by errr no one!! ala scarborough 70's guest house styleee!!) Got woken up by workmen outside the window at about 7.30 am need I carry on... We went up the Skytower first to get great views across the city and more impressively...

Our last day in Boston we went across the river to Cambridge for a walk around Havard University. Lots of old buildings and green squares, and steady looking students. Came back in the afternoon and finally did a pile of washing at the laundrette, see its not all rock and roll. Left Boston on Sunday morning, finally sunshine appeared as we were leaving! Train back to New York past the lovely coastline of Connecticut. Loads of bays and lovely houses, everyone seem...