Late October, my wife and I were thrilled to experience our dream vacation, travel by rail all the way across Canada. The train is the Canadian National #1, the flagship of the passenger fleet, called "The Canadian". If you have a Canadian ten dollar bill with picture of a train on the back, that's the one.
The trip was amazing, and the CN staff were very friendly and most helpful at every stage of our journey. It really was the trip of a lifetime! Of course we took a lot of pictures, documenting Canada from east to west. I'll probably post a few of the better ones as time goes by.
However much we loved the train, it wasn't a great venue for visual art. It's insular: you're cut off from the rest of the world as the train trundles along. There's not much in the way of electronics or technology, either. Riding the train is very much like going back in time. My wife and I really enjoyed it. But the one thing I didn't count on was that the train jolted around quite a bit as it ran, making fine-lined artwork difficult unless the train was stopped.
I did make a few sketches along the way:
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