i'm getting strong vibes to give Calgary a dodge
the reason it was on the list was just from other routes i have seen, but was happy to cut it out, but now we have found out that Calgary Stampede is on when we are there...so think we might do a night there, day at Stampede, night there and then leave the next day. it doesn't look 'our kind of thing' but enough new experiences to maybe make it worthwhile. we don't have much like that in Scotland, so intrigued.

thanks for the tips so far, doing a hell of a lot of night time reading at the moment. almost any stop we look at, comes with a "you could spend a week here" so far we need about a year to do the trip, so we'll just need to be a bit brutal with our planning.

only thing we are roughly set on, is 3 or 4 nights, without a car in Vancouver to start. We'll have been traveling for 20+hours and will be 7 time zones out, so a bit of time to acclimatise and see what looks like to be an amazing city.
Probably not going to do vancouver island this trip, as we are short on time and it looks like there is a lot to do, as we will be back in the west coast in the next few years.

thanks!