Day 10 – Banff to Kamloops, back on the rails

A scary thought crosses my mind: are we actually getting used to 18 hour-long days of active traveling? Either the pain has so dulled our nerves as to be almost imperceptible or we really are beginning to enjoy on-the-go style. We cannot refute one inexorable fact: we are seeing so much, doing so much, and absolutely maximizing all the daylight hours…. Now we only need to schedule a sleep day for when we return home!

The morning greets us with a light dusting of rain, so light in fact that we barely become wet while waiting for our transfer to the train station. The low lying clouds cover the summits of the surrounding mountains, giving us a almost other worldly view. Our short transfer (maybe 7 minutes) drops us in front of the Banff train station. The station is a scene from a classic movie. The building is quite small, yet the staff still manages to bring everyone in out of the sprinkling drops of rain and warm our bodies with hot coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Read the rest of this entry »

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