The Canadian trip ended yesterday. It was a full on, non-stop, actioned packed 21 days, it left me pretty tired last night and still feeling the pinch today. There was a good bunch of people on the trip (mostly English but also German, Spanish, Swiss, Dutch and Swedish) who were all up for everything thrown at us by the tour leader. Wayne, the tour leader definitely fed off the energy of the group and kept us full throttle doing and seeing as much as possible in this period.

For me probably Banff and its hiking was the highlight (closely followed by Tofino which is just a cool place) but I don't think there was a bad place (or dull day on the Trek). Surprising I found Canada really expensive (Perth prices) so I'm glad to be back in the States where there is plenty of everything and its cheap!

Spent this morning at the Boeing History of Flight Museum with Kate from the tour. Its a pretty amazing aviation museum with a lot 50+ actual retired planes from throughout history (including an F14, Blackbird, Concord and an old Airforce 1). Well worth visiting even if you aren't into planes. Seattle is definitely Boeing central (and now Microsoft) the company was founded here and there is a number of factories including the production line for Boeing 747s, 777s and the new 787. Before I left for Canada I did go for a tour around the factory which is all in a single massive building to the north of the city. The building housing the production line is the largest volume building in the world, it can apparently fit all of Disney land into it and still have room for its carparks and then some! In the production lines even the 747s and 777s look small......seeing the new, now delayed and definitely controversial 787s being assembles was definitely cool - the first four of these planes ever to be build were on the production line the day I went. This plane has never flow and there is over 900 orders currently in for it. I bet when the first one rolls off the production line and onto the runway for its maiden flight that there is some 'clenching' engineers.