I don’t know if you knew this already, but I love traveling by train. I used to do it quite a lot as a kid (fares were cheap!), and now do it whenever possible… Living in Ontario has given me many more opportunities to do it in the last 4 years than I have in my lifetime. There’s just something about it that strikes a chord with me… maybe because it’s such an old-fashioned way to travel, maybe because it takes time, maybe because it’s something different… maybe because it doesn’t have the hassles of plane travel (yet, anyway). In some respects, it has quite a few advantages over planes; take this post, for example– I’m writing it and posting it from a train at the moment (somewhere between Ottawa and Toronto, just past Kingston).

If there’s one trip I’ve always wanted to do (and I actually looked at the logistics of it earlier on this trip), it’s to travel from coast-to-coast (in Canada) on a train, Vancouver to Halifax. Or Halifax to Vancouver, whichever (this is more likely if I start from Ottawa, anyway). It’d take three different train journeys (Halifax -> Montreal, Montreal -> Toronto, Toronto -> Vancouver), and would take quite a long time, but it’d be time well-spent, in my opinion.

It’s going on my bucket list.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to pitch in towards a Canrailpass (between $872 – $1003 for a high-season coast-to-coast pass), which will allow me to do this, let me know .