Had a nice drive across to Banff, took bout 10 hours. Stayed in the HI Hostel for our first 2 nights, which had a basement pub that had Karoke on one of the nights, so after a few rums, Mark & I got up and sung 'under the bridge'. Two nights was long enough to be sleeping in bunks and sharing a room, so we moved into a cabin for bout the same price while we looked for jobs & accommodation. We were really lucky and managed to find a place to live & b...

Had sweet flights to Vancouver via Toronto as got the exit seats on both flights so got heaps of leg room. Got a bit of a shock to the system going from 35+ degrees to under 10. But was nice to be able to speak english after being in non english speaking countries for the last 7 mounts. And we were amazed at the friendliness of the canadians. The buses only take coins, and we only had notes, so the bus driver from the airport gave us tickets for free. We were g...