Vancouver is a bustling west coast seaport in British Columbia and we spent a wonderfully light, laidback and budget-friendly 4 days there.

We love Halloween but with rising number of covid cases in our home city, we agreed to skip trick-or-treating and head to the mountains!

For this year's Thanksgiving, we wandered out to Elk Island National Park for some fresh air and the beautiful changing colours of fall.

Hard Luck Canyon is a unique geological formation of sandstone banks and cliffs carved through the sandstone layers some 11,000 years ago.