There has been something of a gap since our last post. Sadly Andy's mum died on 26 September after a short illness at the age of 91. Thankfully we made it back to Ireland to be with her and the rest of the family a few days prior to this. The blog below starts from where we last left off in Jasper and covers our time in the Vancouver area and the trip home. Andy finally got his one and only bear sighting as we left Jasper by train (which arrived 5 hours late -...

To coin an overused North American word, the Rockies have been awesome. We have spent two weeks in Banff and Jasper National Parks but the highlight was the week spent cycling along the Icefields Parkway - the 230km road between the towns of Lake Louise and Jasper which is just packed with mountain views. We flew into Calgary from New York (having successfully argued with the United Airlines groundstaff that we should not be charged an additional $100 per bik...

Our 10 days in the USA have been wonderful. To get here we spent 5 days cycling south from Montreal down the very beautiful Lake Champlain. Neither of us had heard of this lake before our friend Nancy suggested we take this route and meet her at Lake George just below Champlain. Lake Champlain has lots of islands linked by bridges orshort causeways and some great island-hopping cycle routes. The area is relatively well-populated so there were quite a few eat...

We have finally managed to find a workaround for the photos ... so there are now some Canadian albums to view.

We got off the train in Quebec City around 5.30am and pitched up with Eliane and Guillaume at 7am (another warmshowers.org host). We then managed to spend the day sightseeing despite some exhaustion especially given the heat. The tour of the parliament building gave us a bit of insight into the history of the province. We heard a lot about the ba ttles between the French and the British in the 1700s; the French ultimately retained control and the separatists m...