During lunch, someone at the next table is the first to spot the snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies still many miles ahead, but the news prompts an exodus from the dining car as people scurry for a seat in one of the domes. By 3:00 we’ve reached the mountains and the Canadian begins threading…
Evidently freight traffic delays us during the night because we’re behind schedule by almost two hours when we arrive at Sioux Lookout late the next morning. The population here is just 3000, but it’s the largest community we’ve seen since leaving Sudbury, 1200 kilometers behind us. Throughout the afternoon, the Canadian rocks along at a…
By mid-afternoon, we’ve entered the vast rocky area above Lake Superior known as the Canadian Shield. This is real wilderness now, a forest of oak, maple, spruce and birch. Fallen trees and saplings bent double from heavy snows have created an impenetrable tangle. Every few minutes we pass a lake, almost every one with a…
(This story originally ran in International Living magazine and subsequently appeared on the SoGoNow.com web site.) I waken in the morning to a splash of yellow sunlight on the forward wall of my compartment. We’ve crossed above the State of Maine during the night and are now heading southwest toward Montreal. I’m about to leave…