{"id":2825,"date":"2017-02-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2017-04-16T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T16:54:22","slug":"day-1-leaving-toronto-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 \u2013 Leaving Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only been a couple of weeks since our return from skiing in Mont-Tremblant, but we&#8217;re excited to get away for some more skiing. This time, we&#8217;re heading west. Last year, we split our time between the Fairmont&#8217;s at Whistler and Banff, but we loved the skiing best at Lake Louise. Therefore, this time, we&#8217;re concentrating all of our time at the Chateau Lake Louise.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are after our arrival at Pearson airport. Did I mention that we don&#8217;t know how to travel light? Ski gear can be bulky. Good thing our baggage allowance is 6 x 70 Lbs, or this could be expensive!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/LakeLouise2017\/20170211_153213-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the way, for anyone else who loves to ski, and travels with good equipment, we love our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportube.com\/Special-Edition-Series-2-Sportube-p\/21plswdx.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SporTube<\/a>. We&#8217;ve been using this thing for several years, on several airline trips. It&#8217;s picked up a few dents along the way, but the skis inside were always protected.<\/p>\n<p>We have a late afternoon flight, arriving in Calgary in the evening. Here we are at check-in for our flight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2827\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/wp-content\/pictures\/LakeLouise2017\/CheckIn-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After arriving in Calgary, we claimed our luggage, and picked up our rental van.  We&#8217;re staying in a hotel by the airport for the night, and plan to make our way to Banff National Park first thing in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only been a couple of weeks since our return from skiing in Mont-Tremblant, but we&#8217;re excited to get away for some more skiing. This time, we&#8217;re heading west. Last year, we split our time between the Fairmont&#8217;s at Whistler &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/?p=2825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[22,24],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake-louise-2017","tag-calgary","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hodson.ca\/Travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}