A very very early wakeup call so that we can be dropped off ready for the next leg of our Journey aboard the Rocky Mountaineer to travel along the transcontinental railway.

There will be 800 passengers aboard making this trip so it will be the longest train to leave yards this year, each carriage holds 80 passengers and we will be looked after by service, culinary & chefs aboard our carriage.

We were pulled out of the station at 8 am with a wonderful farewell from waving station staff & alone bagpiper bidding us safe travels.

We travelled though farmlands following the Fraser & Thompson river, through Thompson Valley, part of the Coastal Mountain Range all the way to Kamloops.

Passed through a variety of landscapes from semi-arid to lush forests with beautiful lakes, looking up to Majestic snow topped Rocky Mountains, the gold class dome which is at the front of the train gives us a wonderful panoramic view. The locals give the train a friendly wave as we go travel past.

We pulled into Kamloops at 5pm and bused to the Sandman Hotel which is situated on the banks of Kamloops lake which we were all grateful for a much need walk to stretch our legs after so many hours on the train this is only an overnight stop over and we are up early again ready to board again at 7.15am the buses which transport passengers to the train have to do a bus ballet pulling back and forth to juggle into position so passengers alight at the right carriage for boarding back onto the Rocky Mountaineer.

The service aboard the train is amazing and you never get a chance to get hungry. There is only a small dinning car downstairs, so we have to be seated in two sittings but while one is down stairs the upstairs passengers are given snacks and drinks to tide them over.

Along the way Bernadette and Chelsea are keeping us well informed with a running commentary as we travel along. Heading further up into the Rockies and we pass through an engineering marvel the corkscrew through the mountain across many bridges in total we have travelled 1,200km to arrive at beautiful Lake Louise.