In addition to their regular duties, CBC reporters will be filing online dispatches as the campaign unfolds. Click below for their observations on covering the candidates.

As the Conservative campaign winds down in its final few days, and the premier does his last-minute crisscross of the province to shore up votes in some key ridings, a number of us on the bus are reflecting on how we will remember the experience.

For me, it's the music.

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The Liberal bus continues on a frantic pace, trying to get to as many Tory strongholds as possible across the province in the last week of the campaign.

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Which party's leader and campaign team was in the best mood the morning after the big debate? Our reporters take a reading from the leaders' buses.

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Howard Hampton looks more like a football player than a politician, especially when he's looming over your seat on the plane handing you a can of beer.

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There are times on the Liberal bus when it seems more like a crusade than a political campaign. I don't mean this to be critical or dismissive. The people behind Dalton McGuinty are well organized, and nimble. And the candidate himself is a far better performer than he was even just a few months ago.

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I usually slug around a camera myself, but on this assignment it was decided I would get a special treat, my own cameraman, Neil Carroll. Unfortunately, there was no seat booked for him on the Liberal bus.

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It was a flying start to the campaign.

The call came at noon. I was in Ottawa, and the first Liberal stop was at 6:45 p.m., in Kitchener-Waterloo.

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It caught us by surprise.

Most reporters in the Queen's Park press gallery were expecting Eves would drop the writ Sept. 3, or even the next week.

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What's it like working at Queen's Park with everyone on tenterhooks about the possibility of a spring election?

Well, it isn't pretty.
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