Our day begun with our own breakfast in the hostel in Edmonton and then I set off for a walk to the Old Strathcona district just a block away from us.  This is an ‘old’ area of Edmonton, which really isn’t that old but is by Canadian/Australian standards.  The 100 year old buildings are now home to cool coffee shops, clubs, bookstores etc and have ‘character’.  When I...

We started the day with breakfast at the Howard Johnson motel in Red Deer. I was expecting basic coffee and donuts like we had experienced when travelling 7 years ago, but was pleasantly surprised when greeted with fresh bagels, cereal, juice, coffee and fruit.  We filled up as much as we could and set off for the 2 hour drive north to Edmonton. 

The highways are duel...

We had a good night sleep in ‘The Plains Motel’ in Brooks, Alberta; a cheap little motel on the main road.  We had our own breakfast in the room since it had a microwave and fridge.  I went for a walk but didn’t see anything of great interest in this small and smelly town.  Now I’m not being overly judgemental when I say smelly because it is a well known fact that Brooks...

Pancakes for breakfast again at the Calgary YHA; great when someone else makes the batter and cleans up the mess after!  Packed and ready to hit the road for road trip Canada (and USA)!  Today we were heading to the small town of Brooks because it was close to the Dinosaur Provincial Park, a World Heritage Site with the largest and most spectacular area of badlands in...

Our first morning in Canada – hey!  We enjoyed our free pancake breakfast at the youth hostel and got ourselves organised to get out the door. Most things don’t open until 10 am but Walmart was open so we headed there to get some groceries and supplies.  We didn’t really have a great plan for the day, just a few ideas on what we might try to see and do and to let the day...

I woke up feeling like I hadn’t slept much at all after my late night of drying clothes.  We got ourselves packed; ate our free bagels for breakfast and set off for the airport.  We had to walk to Fullerton Station; get the train into town; change lines for the O’Hare line and get to terminal to check-in and do it in a hurry.  We probably should have left a good 30 minutes...

The day started early, but not as early as yesterday!  Knowing that we had a couple of hours to fill in before ‘things’ opened at 10 am meant we ate breakfast, got organised and got a train into the city to see some sites that didn’t have a time attached to them.  First stop, the Millenium Park. Check out the Cloud Gate sculpture.  It really was a cool thing to see and the...

Hi there readers.  So I can get this post out to you I am going to give you a dot point version of our first day in Chicago and show you heaps of cool photos. 

• Woke up and checked Steve’s watch.  I thought it said 7.40 am so I got ready to go for a walk.  Got dressed in my gym gear and checked his watch again.  Bugger – it was actually 3 am!!  Climbed back into bed and...

At 5.19 am I was wide awake. The iPod alarms weren’t due to go off until 6 am but I didn’t get back to sleep in that time.  When the alarms sounded I was up and ready to start the day and the final leg of our RTW adventure.  Hard to believe we had just completed 4 months of travel throughout Europe and previously 4 months of travel throughout Asia.  The boys were really...

Our last day in London … we had thoughts of going to Hampton Court but decided that it would make the day too traumatic and rushed so we gave up on that idea.  We had to get to the post office to mail some more books home and send the GPS to a friend who was going to be driving in Europe at Christmas time so that was the first chore.  The second chore was finding a new...