“We have rooms available for two nights, but after that you have to leave because we’ll be closing for the season….” - The man at the front desk of the St. Mary Lodge kindly informed us regarding our possibilities for staying in the east side of Glacier National Park (US – Montana)…

This did not sound too bad after the having heard from the customs officers at the US border that it would be difficult to find something open in the east part of the park this time of the year… The border would also close in the next day…

The rain did not come back, but the strong winds in the region prove to be worse than rain for the simple purpose of creating images… The trip needed an alternative schedule as we started counting backwards towards the end of the holydays… Does my writing sound depressing?... Well I may be…

"Glaciers recede a couple of meters every year, if you come here in 150 years, you’ll be having a boat trip instead of an Ice Explorer trip" - The guide at the Columbia Ice Fields is letting us know about some facts while driving us up the glacier in some kind of bus that seams to have came out of a science fiction movie...

Most of the time we take what we see for granted, but it’s a fact that the world is changing and what we saw during the trip will no longer be there if we ever go back...

I’m back to my daily life now, and as everybody may figure out my posts are coming out a little too late... Everything went too fast during the trip in such a way that each night I would fall asleep without the strength to write at the same rate we where fed with new experiences...

I left every place wishing to come back for more and less... More time, experiences, light, weather, water on waterfalls, snow... Less tourists...

As we travel south from Jasper to Banff there’s a notorious increase in the number of tourists, wanting to have less tourists feels quite contradictory as I’m a tourist myself and I have no more rights to go to those places than all the others... Still I’d like to see Lake Louise without the "Fairmont Chateau" and all the man made infrastructures built around it... Although in a different league, this place left me with the same sensation of a "dominated piece of nature" as the Niagara Falls did...

Amazingly, Yoho National Park is just 25 km west of Lake Louise and although the tourist buses still get there, there’s some sensation of isolation in the air that puts this place in the role of those that I can go back to over and over again...

Heck... What am I going in the office!..

“I quit my job, rented my house and will be spending the next 18 months going from Canada’s northern territories to Argentina by bicycle” – We finally found a Portuguese since starting the trip and this one had a big story to tell…

All over the world I met a reduced set of persons with the right proportion of courage and insanity in order to jump into the adventures that most of us dream of…

Sometimes we say that in the next day “we’ll radically change life”… But after a night of sleep we loose courage and there we go again to the same routine all over again…

We saw Nuno going away to continue with his venture with different mind sets… José was probably thinking about how much he would like to do the same, Maria was questioning herself on how would such a person manage to pack all the clothes needed for the trip and still be able to carry them on a bike… I found my comfort level troubled again by facing someone that had enough courage to take the “radical step”…