On the last morning of our train trip we woke up in Hope, BC. Before arriving in Vancouver we had breakfast on the train. Two women came to the dining room wearing matching pajamas with snow-globe designs. It must have been a dare.
This was our first view of the morning, in Hope.
Before long we were into the flat farmland of the Fraser Valley.
Glenn says this is the Pattullo Bridge. Below it then would be the Fraser River Bridge, which I believe we crossed on that first moonlit evening of our trip. By the way, when Glenn was 16, Pat Carey (Canadian Airways pilot) and he flew under the Pattullo Bridge in a Waco biplane on floats. Crazy.
One day I came home from work to find this nice surprise from Glenn. :-)All in all it was wonderful trip with lots of variety. If we had just taken the train trip east, I would have said it was a great experience but it wasn't as good coming back. They never did get our sink and tap fixed. So, expect to have plumbing problems on Via Rail, but also expect good food. The food was the star of the show on the train.
The only real disappointment of the trip for me was that I didn't get to see a cardinal, but that's pretty minor as compared to all the wonderful memories. We were quite lucky with the weather.
The End!
