Category: Hotels, Motels, B&Bs

Many months ago, I booked a trip for my Dad and I that was based around an 11-night cruise from Vancouver to San Diego on the Celebrity Millennium. Unfortunately, a month ago the “Millie” started having serious propulsion problems, and our cruise was cancelled. I was able to re-book...

As usual at the end of a trip, I was anxious to get home, and was out of my room at the Northern Rockies Lodge just before 04:30 on Friday. I didn’t get any photos of the lodge’s dining room last night, so shot a couple this morning at...

On Thursday, my schedule called for a 621-km drive up the Alaska Highway to Muncho Lake where I had a room booked at the beautiful Northern Rockies Lodge. As usual, I was up early, though I didn’t plan to get away until the light was good, as my first...

It was a calm morning, chatting with Dad over a couple of pots of coffee, enjoying the view from his place high on a hill overlooking Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna. I had 2 things on my list for the day – to re-visit Father Pandosy Mission and then...

On Sunday morning, we had to leave the River Queen, and we had set a 10:00 am pickup for a taxi to take us to the Hotel Pulitzer for two nights. We were talking to the Hotel Manager on the River Queen as we were saying our last good-byes,...

Today I was by myself for much of the day, as the group took the Alaska Railroad to Denali while I went ahead with the bus. The first photo is the buffet that the group set up last night – good fun 🙂 The trip started off badly when...

Today was largely a driving day – it’s about 235 miles from our hotel in Anchorage to our B&B in Healy. But it turned out to be much more, with three extremely good moose encounters. We were in no huge hurry to leave the Springhill Suites Anchorage University Lake...

Thursday was our last day to tour Vancouver before boarding our cruise ship, and it was only a partial day as we had to change hotels and then meet our friends from Ontario mid-afternoon. As a result, Chinatown, and in particular the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, were our primary...

Wednesday was a slower day than the previous couple during which we had walked many miles exploring Vancouver. We thought that 4 days would allow plenty of time, but it hasn’t – once again, we’ll be leaving Vancouver with many things still on the “to-do” list. This was the...

On Monday we had a broad overview of Vancouver, yesterday we visited a few of the many attractions to see the details. This was the view from our 9th-floor room at the Westin Bayshore. A local we chatted with yesterday pointed out that while the downtown areas of many...