Last night, we were considering how to spend the month we've scheduled for vacation this year. The big plane tickets have been purchased and we're leaving from Seattle on September 6th. Yet, in Europe nowadays, flying on the little discount airlines is cheaper than trying to take trains. Alas, travelling by rail seems such a more civilized way to get around. We are realizing, for time's sake, if we want to explore both Barcelona and Lisbon, we'll probably need to book those flights quite early. I guess, we can manage Morocco and the far south of Spain using surface transportation.
All this talk, made me realize we have rather neglected local travel. The problem with driving in Canada is there are such vast distances between places. Unless one has a long break, it is simply not possible to get there and back in time. For example, we last visited Calgary in December of 2003. That's about as close as a big city as can be, but it takes two days of driving to reach it.
