Category Archives: 10,000 Miles

Photos from our 10,000 train trip (10/16 – 11/15/2010) from the San Francisco Bay Area to Vancouver, British Columbia, than across Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia and back.

Toqued

19 days into the Canadian journey and we’re finally toqued–aka, ready for preserving our heads in freezing weather. Unfortunately, it’s not snowing here in Quebec City so we’ll probably only get to use the toque as a prop in the Mad Maggies shows. The kilt plus the toque? Pourquoi pas?

The sign zoo

Toque, or tuque.

Canon G11 becoming Canadian.

Mixed bag

We’re taking a chill day. The long legs on the train without the luxury of having a sleeper are taxing–doable, but it really makes one appreciate the supine position. Anyway, here’s a mixed bag of photos taken sometime during the past week.

En route to Halifax, Maggie snoozing on the train.

Maggie snoozing on the train

Old and new in Montréal.

Old and new, Montreal

Near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia getting artsy fartsy.

Lunenberg, yellow tree reflection

Jazzy mural in Halifax.

Jazz mural, Halifax

Canon G11 mixing it up.

Spotty Wi-Fi

After a 19 hour train ride (no Wi-Fi) we’re back to lovely Quebec City for four more days. We arrived in the city at 5:00 AM and hung out at the train station (Gare du Palais) for several hours waiting for the world to wake up. (Canadian train stations in the big cities are VERY nice!) The place we’re staying at for the next two days (Le Royal Champêtre) is very comfortable and I’m feeling lazy so call this is a quicky until we get back into the city proper on Thursday. Beautiful day today, and we’re supposed to get more of the same tomorrow. So far we haven’t gotten any uncomfortably cold weather. Global warming? Whatever it is it’s just fine by us Californians.

Gare du Palais this morning.

Le Gare du Palais, Quebec City

Canon G11 back in Quebec City.