The colours of Canada

Watching the scenery fly by as we travelled over 2000 km across half of Canada was fascinating! The fall colors and seemingly gigantic skies were most amazing - no wonder Fritz fell in love with the country. Most notable to a European family, was the space between towns and cities. If the trip across the ocean was meant to convey the distance to our new home, the vastness of the eastern half of Canada made it very evident.

Not able to afford sleeping compartments, we took regular seats and found it to be quite a challenge to stay positive during all of this long journey. 2 nights and 3 days in the same small seat! The food was also an adjustment, and perhaps having set back our clocks by 90 minutes daily, in order to catch up with local time was beginning to take its toll as well. Fortunately, October 10th was so very close to the completion of this one-way trip.