Banff Leg Of The Search For... Canada 07 Tour   Day 11 After a few running repairs on rockets snowboard we were back on the mountain once again. A fresh covering of snow overnight made the slopes unreal and it wasnt long before Rocket was getting his confidence back and back in the groove. Another brilliant day up the mountain, it was sunny and visability was great except for a period of about 30 mins when the clouds rolled in and dumped a cou...

Banff leg of  The Search For... Canada 07 Tour   Day 8 Taxied to the Greyhound terminal. Stu went an got tickets and bluffed rocket that the bus was booked out and would have to wait 5 hours, not the case. We arrived in Banff, such a beautiful drive through the foothills where the prairies meet the rockies. The valley with the rockies on either side snowcapped looked sensational. Dory and Teacher Jess (TJ), two aussies travelers who we met on ...

Calgary leg of   The Search For....  Canada 07 Tour  Day 6 Early checkout, said seeya to Graham and headed for the airport. Indian taxi driver scratched his head under the turban with a chop stick from the sun visor. Not as fast but talked cricket and how its cheaper to buy beer than water because of the drought. We flew out to Calgary, home of the Calgary Stampede and full of full of it cowboys. Taxied to the hostel, paid a little e...

Victoria leg of  The Search For...Tour Canada 07  Day 4 Out of bed late doors and headed for the ferry to go to Victoria, poor planning on our part left us waiting for the bus to the ferry for over an hour. Not often does this happen, we seem to get real lucky with these sort of things. Stu produced one of the finest bits of skill/fluke i has seen by knocking down the shuttlecock thing gibbo had kicked up onto a ledge with a tennis ball. It was abo...

Vancouver leg of The Search For Tour... Canada 07  Day 1 After a quick debreif in Toronto Slim and Rocket headed for Vancouver. The pressure was on from the start. We took on board the inspirational words from Trav back home; Gibbo was to maintain gas consumption but improve in the areas of flirtation and drought breaking, Rocket to spark the group early like in europe and Stu to provide comic looseness which makes the tour halarious. Solid from th...