6/18/2021 Tahoe Day 1

We flew from Philadelphia to Dallas with Conrad & Steph. Cody and Kasey flew from Boston to Dallas, from there we all flew together to the Reno-Tahoe airport where we picked up a Ford Expedition. We made the scenic drive…
Collect Memories, Not things
Collect Memories, Not things

We flew from Philadelphia to Dallas with Conrad & Steph. Cody and Kasey flew from Boston to Dallas, from there we all flew together to the Reno-Tahoe airport where we picked up a Ford Expedition. We made the scenic drive…

PCH Day 3 We woke up to a beautiful sunny day and watched the sun rise. We were up before the restaurant opened so we walked around the property to get more views until we could have breakfast. Then…

PCH Day 2 We woke up early and had breakfast and packed our bags to start our PCH trip. We headed off on a foggy morning through the wooded hills from San Jose. We had planned to stop at the…

PCH Day 3 This trip was originally supposed to be on the end of my normal week at work in the Santa Monica office, but as the Covid Virus had started to spread, that trip was cancelled by Amazon. Conrad…

Since we had our own car our plan for the day was to retrace some of our steps from yesterday to look for some more wildlife. We headed out towards Lake Minnewanka where we had seen the bear yesterday but…

Sunday in Banff – We woke up to clouds and fog on Sunday morning but we had a tour to go on so we had an early breakfast and went to the lobby to wait for our pick up. Our…

Bus Driver Frank and Tour Guide Luke picked us up at the Chateau Lake Louise where we had spent the last night. We joined a large tour bus full of people for some stops around Lake Louise and Banff and…

Friday morning we had our last breakfast in Jasper and checked out of the beautiful Jasper Lodge headed for Lake Louise. We met Jeff from Sundog Tours for our tour. One of the nice things about booking through Canada Rail…

We got up early and headed to breakfast in the main restaurant. It was a very good buffet and they opened early which was great for us since we had a relatively early tour.The hotel was really beautiful and on…
We headed out again from Kamloops on the same train that we had come in on. We were headed to Jasper. The scenery along the way was fairly similar and we realized that all along so far we hadn’t even…

We met the Rocky Mountaineer staff in the hotel lobby at 6:30 AM and got our luggage tags and instructions. We then took a short bus ride to the train station to board the Rocky Mountaineer. The train was waiting…

Monday was mostly a travel day. We got up at 2 AM and headed for the airport by 4. We flew to Salt Lake and the on to Vancouver. After spending an hour and a half in customs we got…