10 Things Baby Boomer Travelers Will Love About Whistler, British Columbia in Canada
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada – We just returned from our two-week baby boomer tour of western Canada. Our first exciting stop was Whistler Village tucked at the feet of Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. Whistler is a place where mountains, rivers and First Nations people have met for millennia. The Coast Salish First Nations people [...]
Whistler’s Peak 2 Peak Gondola: World’s Longest Freespan Gondola Ride
Peak 2 Peak Gondola ~ Whistler, British Columbia, Canada – Are you ready for an unforgettable baby boomer travel experience? Groundbreaking. Innovative. An engineering marvel. Few projects can share such accolades – even fewer can live up to them. But the Whistler Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola does! This daring project has revolutionized the visitor experience [...]
Fairmont Chateau Whistler in Canada’s British Columbia
Fairmont Chateau Whistler ~ Whistler, British Columbia – Luxury baby boomer travelers enjoy world-class accommodations in spectacular, one-of-a-kind settings. The Fairmont Chateau Whistler gives them that in spades! This iconic resort sits at the foot of Blackcomb mountain and offers an easy walk to the village of Whistler (2010 Olympic Village), ski-in and ski-out privileges [...]
Driving the Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver to Whistler in British Columbia, Canada
One of the very first emotional connections we made, on our two-week baby boomer tour through western Canada, was the stunning drive up the Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99) from Vancouver to Whistler in Canada’s British Columbia. To start our short story off, I thought it might be fun to share this painting I [...]
The Banff Gondola Ride Brings Breathtaking Panoramas – Canadian Rockies Trip Jounal Day #14
The last full day of our tour of western Canada, and the Canadian Rockies, found us with a sunny day and two eager baby boomers ready to climb aboard the Banff Gondola for what is perhaps the best viewing in all of Banff National Park Alberta Canada. My photograph shows one of the viewing platforms [...]
Luxuriating at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel – Canadian Rockies Trip Journal Day #13
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel – As you drive through the town of Banff, in the Alberta Canadian Rockies, there will come a moment when you round a corner and are presented with this jaw-dropping view of the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. This amazing structure first opened in 1888, and at the time was the largest [...]
Hiking Lake Louise – Canadian Rockies Trip Journal Day #12
Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise – Unbelievably, we have again awakened to another rain soaked day here in the Canadian Rockies. Even the poor bellmen were beginning to show signs of wear as they attempted to keep everyone under an umbrella. Even the locals have commented about the rarity of this amount of rain during this [...]
Walking the Athabasca Glacier – Canadian Rockies Trip Journal Day #11
Columbia Icefields Glacier Adventure – One of the baby boomer adventures that will long stick in our minds was our walk upon the Athabasca Glacier in Alberta Canada’s Columbia Icefields. Our driving tour of the Canadian Rockies has been plagued by lingering rain. However, when we made our way to ride upon the massive “terra [...]
Canadian Rockies Trip Journal Day #10: Columbia Icefields Parkway Road Trip
Columbia Icefields Parkway – The tenth day of our baby boomer tour of western Canada brought us to the Columbia Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies. This stunningly beautiful scenic drive is 230 km (140 mi) long and stretches from Jasper down near the city of Banff. The well maintained two-lane road provides seemingly infinite mountain panoramas [...]
Canadian Rockies Trip Journal Day #9 Brings a Rainy Day in Jasper
Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge ~ Jasper, Alberta, Canada – Well, I suppose a baby boomer traveler needs to expect some inclement weather when traveling. Right? For a good part of the day, we were so socked in with clouds that you couldn’t even see the beautiful, snow-covered Rocky Mountain peaks standing majestically behind the Fairmont [...]
