Our flight was around 8am, so I called a taxi to pick us up from Hotel around 5:30am. Luckily we had a driver living in the same hotel, so he took the taxi from his office first and went back hotel to pick us. The taxi driver is a very lonely person (I guess). Start from the time he picked us, he could never stop talking. He told us all about himself, how he sick and need operation, how the hospital operation room doing his type of surgery, how he divorced and how he was from a IT profession to become a Taxi Driver because of the IT bubble burst. For god sake, I am also an IT guy. His voice exactly same as Mel Gibson, made me remembered the movie "Conspiracy Theory". Eventually, we had to leave the North America and back to reality. Start working in one of the most busy city in the world "Hong Kong".
目前分類：Travel (27)
- Aug 09 Thu 2007 15:14
Rocky Mountain & Grand Canyon (25) - Back to Hong Kong
- Aug 09 Thu 2007 14:26
Rocky Mountain & Grand Canyon (24) - San Francisco Day 3
In the morning, we started with the most famous public transport, the old style San Francisco tram. We brought a day pass. Found that there are two type of tram. One is having 2 front side, they could be driven in both way. The other one is driven from one side, that means they need to make a U-turn when they arrived the terminal. We took the tram from the financial centre to Fisherman Wharf. Since we brought the ticket to Alcatraz Island on Monday. About the tickets, it was really hard to buy. We arrived San Francisco on Monday. We had been to the ticket office to ask for the most early ticket to the Island. The answer from the ticketing box, "The most early one is 2:30pm on Thursday. After that it will be Sunday 12:30pm". So we have no choice but buy the Sunday one and we have to visist Las Vagas first before we could visit the Island at the last day of our trip. The Island is very famous because it had been used for the Hollywood Movie making. It was a prison before 1963, but it was closed down because of the high maintenance cost. It was famous also because there were quite a number of serious criminal living here. And also there were several attempt to escape story, those were very interesting.
- Aug 08 Wed 2007 14:21
Rocky Mountain & Grand Canyon (23) - San Francisco Day 2
It was Saturday. The Pier 1 became a Farmer Market. They had many fruit selling there and the also let the people to try. We had tried some too. They also sell plants and flowers. Most important, they sold fresh oyster there. 2 dollars each but 10 dollars for one dozen if take away. After eating the oyster, we took BART to San Francisco Government Building area. Then we took bus there to Golden Gate Garden. Next to the Garden, it is the Pacific Ocean. We stayed there for awhile and took some birds picture. Golden Gate Garden is very large, it just walked 2 famous points there and went back to China Town.
- Aug 07 Tue 2007 15:29
Rocky Mountain & Grand Canyon (22) - San Francisco Day 1
We were at the Coit Tower to see the far view of the San Francisco City. Saw a little puppy belong to a student from Hong Kong. We walked around in China Town afterward. Visited a cake shop that was making fortune cookies. After the demonstration, the shop owner offer us the custom made Fortune cookies. Each cookie cost 2 US dollars. Expensive lehh. Then we went to the Golden Gate Bridge, a very famous place in San Francisco. Lastly, we went to the Fishermen Market and ate a Chowder Soup there.
- Aug 06 Mon 2007 16:02
Rocky Mountain & Grand Canyon (21) - Las Vagas to San Francisco
Last day in Vagas, finally we do a bit gambling. We lost all our budget, 2 big US dollars. hehe...
- Aug 06 Mon 2007 14:41
Rocky Mountain & Grand Canyon (20) - Las Vagas to Grand Canyon
Eventually, we arrived our main objective of our trip "The Grand Canyon". Before going there, we went to the hotel tower to see the game overthere first. There were very exciting games, you can see it from the picture. We followed a local tour to Grand Canyon, it was a very shot trip in terms of time. It took us only 7 hours to go from hotel to the bottom of the Grand Canyon Valley river and back to hotel. We first trave by a bus to the mini-plane airport. Flew to the helicopter base. We went to the Valley bottom by helicopter and travel the river by the boat over there. Then flew back to the base and travel to the skywalk by bus. After the skywalk, we had lunch in another spot in Grand Canyon. Finally we went back to Las Vagas around 8pm. After that, we went to the old city centre of Las Vagas to see the largest LCD screen in the world. And that was the final point of the day.
- Aug 06 Mon 2007 09:30
Rocky Mountain (18) - San Francisco to Las Vagas
Travel by BART (San Francisco Underground) to Airport in the early morning around 6:45am. Then changed the terminal train to terminal 2. Just when we arrived the Las Vagas airport, the first thing we saw are the gambling machines. After checked in at the Stratosphere Hotel, we went for a walk in the city. We went to see the Coca Cola and M & M show room. Then we had a little rest in the hotel. We had a buffet dinner in Flamingo and then took a look of the famous Las Vagas Hotel night scene.
- Aug 03 Fri 2007 16:07
Rocky Mountain (17) - Vancouver to San Francisco 16 Jul 07
Time to say goodbye to Vancouver and say hello to San Francisco. We only stopped one night and San Francisco and went to Las Vagas on the next day. After checked-in at the hotel in China Town. We walked to the Pier number 1. From pier 1 walked to pier 39.
- Aug 03 Fri 2007 14:20
Rocky Mountain (16) - Meritt to Vancouver - Whale watching
From Meritt to Vancouver, it is only around 2 hours drive. Once back to Vancouver, we went for a chinese lunch in a restaurant (Yum Chea). The "Dip Sum" is very good, up to Hong Kong standard worr. We won't waster our time, went for the Whale watching immediately. It was a 4 hours function and very interesting. Watched a log of killer whale jump at the sea. But it costed Hundred something Canadian dollars...quite expensive.
- Aug 03 Fri 2007 12:27
Rocky Mountain (15) - Banff to Meritt
The day from Rocky Mountain back to Vancouver. Same as the case for going to Rocky, one day is not enough and that's why we had t stay in Meritt for one night. The first stop of the day is the Spiral tunnel. Actually we had been there before, last time we could not see any train on the railway and this time we were very lucky that a train were really going throught this part of the railway. The train was a very long one, it was over a hundred units. On that place we can see 3 parts of one train on the railway at the same time. It was really interesting. After that we had been to Roger Pass and 3 Valley. Eventually we manage to find a room of a Motel in Meritt. Lucky.
- Aug 02 Thu 2007 18:39
Rocky Mountain (14) - Banff Day 2 - Yoho National Park
Lake Louise again, this time we went there in the morning around 8am, no many people and more easy to find a better angle to take photo..great. Takakkaw Falls, it is a must go place in Rocky Mountain. Actually, you can reach the bottom of the Falls and feel the moist. It will definitely make you wet. The natural bridge is the war between water and rock. This time the rock is still hanging there but it will finally destroy by the water, but it will take a million years. The Emerald lake is very green. And you can see me pretending to chop the wood at car park of hostel.
- Aug 02 Thu 2007 15:31
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (13) Banff day 1
Been to Spring Hotel, Hot spring from the sulphur mountain. Lake Minnerwanka and Lake Twojack. Johnson Canyon and the Falls.
- Aug 01 Wed 2007 16:01
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (12) Jasper to Banff
The day travel from Jasper to Banff, saw a moose on the way. And stopped at Columbia Icefield to see and step on the Glacier. Then go to see the very famous lake of Rocky, they are Lake Lousie and Lake Moraine.
- Aug 01 Wed 2007 11:02
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (11) Jasper Day 2
Went to Medicine Lake, Maligne Lake and Canyon in the morning, medicine means magic in Red Indian. Since the Indian found that the lake may disappear sometimes if it is a dry year. And they found there is no way out of the Lake to any river, thus they thought that it is the God magic. Actually there are some creeks at the bottom of the lack and the water will run to the Maligne Canyon from there. After walking the canyon (2 hours walk), it was already afternoon. We went to 2 different Falls, one is Sunwapta and the other is Athabaska. Both are very beautiful. We also saw some goats on the way.
- Aug 01 Wed 2007 10:51
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (10) Jasper Day 1
After settled in a B&B, we went to Pyramid Lake and Patricia Lake. Then walked around in the town and saw a funny dog.
- Jul 31 Tue 2007 16:58
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (9) From Kamloops to Jasper
Start climbing the mountain, found a old style car, an old style oil station and hopefully it is not an old style scene.
- Jul 31 Tue 2007 14:07
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (8) Kamloops
We had run for a day, only could reach Kamloops. Stayed at a cheap Motel in town. First time stay in a Motel though saw it a lot in the USA movie. It was a quite clean place, much better than our expectation.
- Jul 31 Tue 2007 11:12
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (7)
Form Vancouver to Rocky mountain is not a short distance, we ran for a whole day can only cover half of the way. Nevertheless, the scene around the road is really beautiful.
- Jul 30 Mon 2007 18:20
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (6)
Lytton is a very small town having around 300 residents. Once there were around several thousand people living here because of Gold Rush. Furthermore, it is a merging place of Fraser and Thompson River. Fraser is full of dirt, while Thompson is very clear that you can see it from the picture.
- Jul 30 Mon 2007 17:49
Rocky Mtn and Grand Canyon July 07 (5)
This town called "Hope" in B.C. of Canada, and this is the place where Stallone made his movie "First Blood".
