Second Canada story

Playing catch-up after being away but my Rocky Mountaineer story from May's Adventure World famil was published in last week's Sunday Star Times (click here to read).

Thanks to the Animator for the glorious pix.

NEW YORK

I've had what the kids call an 'epic fail'. Thanks to an unfortunate mash-up of limited time and rubbish hotel internet, I have yet to document our final day on the Rocky Mountaineer, or the gorgeousness of Jasper, Lake Louise or Banff. Or the four nights we spent in fabulous Toronto.

I promise to play catch-up next week when we are home. In the meantime, we flew into the Big Apple this morning. It's been a few years since I was last in my favourite city in the whole world.
Someone thoughtfully turned on the sun before we arrived and we had the best afternoon wandering around the beautiful High Line and meandering around the streets near our Midtown hotel.

It's good to be back.

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Rocky Mountaineer - and Jasper

Apologies for the radio silence - we have spent the last two days on the Rocky Mountaineer train from Vancouver to Jasper (blissfully with no Wifi on board).

It was all kinds of gorgeous and I will share the Animator's photos once we have sorted them. In the meantime, here are some stupidly gorgeous pics from our accommodation tonight, the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge.

Could this place be any more Instragrammable if it tried?

Currently girding my loins

For the one hour flight to Auckland, and then the 13 hour slog to Vancouver.

Will miss this little chap so much but looking forward to a fun time and our amazeballs Adventure World Western Explorer Rocky Mountaineer trip (and lots of great things I can write about for the many, many stories I need to file on my return).

See you on the other side....

  

Canada - and New York City, baby!

It's been a bit of a slow start to the year, travel wise, which is fine by me, given that I spent so much of last year climbing on and off planes, filling out stupid immigration forms and trying to remember it all sufficiently to write innumerable stories.

Besides, having multiple contracts means I haven't actually been able to leave town. But later next week that changes when we fly to Vancouver for the glorious nine day Adventure World Western Explorer trip from Vancouver to Calgary on the Rocky Mountaineer train, which has been called one of the world's best train trips. Then we fly to Toronto for more adventures, including dinner with a cousin I've never met.

Thanks to the lovely folk at Adventure World for this media trip - and for letting the Animator come too. We are super excited.

But that's not all. As I have an, um, milestone birthday hovering on the horizon, and I spent the last milestone birthday in New York, it seemed rude not to do the same. So after we're done with Toronto we fly to my favourite city in the world for four nights of eating, drinking, shopping and trying to forget how old I am. What's more, I am determined that NO work will be done on this leg; this is strictly a holiday (even as I type those words, I know I will end up writing something about it).

But yeah, how exciting is that? Now I just have to get a ridiculous amount of deadlines out of the way before I can get my head into travel mode...