Simon says

 Writing this as we cross the plains of Alberta, I realise now how much I miss the mountains and the ocean.  It is hard to explain why I feel a comfort and a peace in those environments.  I certainly didn't grow up around mountains and my ocean going experience was confined to the Solent and the English Channel.  I don't know if it is the weather or something deeper in the mysticism of those environments that so ostentatiously overwhelm us.  Some people find their peace in the desert landscape or the deep forest.  Suffice to say I have loved spending so much of the year close to seas and mountains but I am only now fully appreciating that. Approaching Revelstoke And so it was that we enjoyed threading our way through the Coast Mountains and into the Rockies.  There is a wildness to the communities dotted through these parts and a sense of living on the edge of the wilderness.  Where Europe's mountains have in many places been tamed and civilised w...