Gday All, So after the brilliant tour out west it was back to Chatham for a few days to say goodbye to Lisa and her family. Just getting back to Chatham from Toronto was a nightmare. The bus which normally takes less than 3 hours took 7 due to snow covering sections of the main 4 lane highway and a number of accidents caused by it. 5 days in Chatham and then it was back to Toronto with Lisa to meet Gibbo and say bye to Bill and Vanessa. We stayed in a n...

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...