It's a busy summer for us with 3 continents in 3 months for 4.25 weeks of traveling. Using credit card points and miles, along with a really cheap trip to Peru, made the whirlwind summer trips possible without sacrificing our other trip plans. For example we offset $600 of airfare to Calgary with a Bank of America card. Merrill Lynch was kind enough to offset $1000 of our $1500 business class airfare to Peru. Barclays paid for our lodging in Canada.
Trips:
1: Canadian Rockies*
2: Peru and Ecuador
3: Spain, Andorra and France (upcoming)
*So yes a slight stretch of the '3 continents' since we already live on one of them.
We got very lucky with the weather while we were in Canada. Always a unpredictable it was, overall, great hiking weather and we had a particularly gorgeous day to drive up the Icefields Parkway and trek along its many stops. We ended up with a later start than planned so Lake Louise and Morane Lake were already zoos by 8:30am on Sunday so we skipped those and planned to come back a different day. A bit of a risk at the time but it paid off later. Also - this was a bit of a shoulder season for Banff and Jasper since it, apparently, doesn't really pick up till July 1st. We got to the rest of the popular places very early and encountered large crowds on the way back. I can only imagine how bad it gets during peak season as those descending hoards of humanity were large enough that I wouldn't have enjoyed my stay as it was.
A marker of where the glacier was in 1992:
Trips:
1: Canadian Rockies*
2: Peru and Ecuador
3: Spain, Andorra and France (upcoming)
*So yes a slight stretch of the '3 continents' since we already live on one of them.
We got very lucky with the weather while we were in Canada. Always a unpredictable it was, overall, great hiking weather and we had a particularly gorgeous day to drive up the Icefields Parkway and trek along its many stops. We ended up with a later start than planned so Lake Louise and Morane Lake were already zoos by 8:30am on Sunday so we skipped those and planned to come back a different day. A bit of a risk at the time but it paid off later. Also - this was a bit of a shoulder season for Banff and Jasper since it, apparently, doesn't really pick up till July 1st. We got to the rest of the popular places very early and encountered large crowds on the way back. I can only imagine how bad it gets during peak season as those descending hoards of humanity were large enough that I wouldn't have enjoyed my stay as it was.
A marker of where the glacier was in 1992: