...and back again...

Trip Start Oct 15, 2007

Trip End Aug 24, 2008

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Flag of Canada Prince George, Alberta, Canada
Sunday, November 11, 2007

On the train again, and we bagged what had by now become our regular seats. However, Dave the conductor asked us to move so four monstrous squaws (plus babe in arms) could have the two groups of four across from each other. Fair enough really. Given their size, eight seats between four of them only just provided an adequate upholstery/buttock ratio. Imagine Atilla the Hun's fat ugly sister, remove her dress sense, increase the volume, multiply by four and add a smelly baby.

Still, they weren't on the train for the whole journey, and Dave did eventually tell them off for having spread out to fill twelve seats between them.

The scenery was, predictably enough, very pretty. Although this was the return journey and therefore the same line as we'd already travelled, the fact that it had been getting dark early meant that the morning brought fresh views at which to ooh and aah. As the day progressed and the light begain to fail, Kirsty began to suspect that she may not get to see a moose. Inevitably, when Jacob nipped off to the loo, she saw one, and so was excited and apologetic in equal measure.
"Oooh! Sorry...I think I might have seen one. Big deer shaped thing with a big silly nose! Big chunky antlers! That sounds like a moose doesn't it?"
That'll be the BSc in Zoology coming out then. Jacob, having lived in Newfoundland, had seen moose before on various occasions (one of which having been between two slices of bread), so didn't really mind.

We were late into Prince George (there's a pattern emerging here), and were picked up again by our (still absent) hostess's flatmates. Another chilled evening in their flat ensued. Nice to unwind.

The trip from Jasper to Prince Rupert and back takes four days, which, at the time of year when it gets dark early, is a bit too long, and by the end of this, the third day, we were a bit trained out, but we still had the following day's ride back to Jasper to look forward to. Nevertheless, the country is really quite stunning, and how often do you get to see moose, elk, coyotes and wolves running through the snow covered pines in the Rockies?