We woke up to rain today, which is a blessing because of the forest fires in this Park. The Going-to-the-Sun road is still closed due to the Reynolds Creek fire. We decided to go to the Two Medicine Lake area of the Park in the southeastern section of the Park. All the way there it…
Grinnell Lake, Glacier NP
We are leaving Canada today to begin our trip south, and the first stop is Glacier National Park in Montana. We crossed the border into the States, and found out that anything that grows in the south is not allowed across the border. I gave the guard only some of my food, as we had…
Going to the Sun Road, Glacier NP
The rain from yesterday cleared the sky of the smoke from the fires, mostly from Washington, and the Going-to-the-Sun road opened back up today. We decided to take this opportunity to drive this Road to see the damage from the fire and the magnificent mountain views. There is still construction on the road and we…
Drumheller, Alberta
Drumheller, Alberta, was are final destination for the weekend. Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River Valley in the Badlands of east-central Alberta. We had flown over Drumheller earlier to get a bird’s-eye view of the Drumheller Golf Club, where the back-nine holes are in the hoodoos. We visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum…
Stettler Train Ride
Our last weekend with Pat and Harry was a fun-filled adventurous 3 days away from Calgary. We drove a couple hours northeast to a small town of Rosebud, where we had flown over in Harry’s plane a few days earlier. We played golf at the Akokiniiskway Golf Club, it was the Rosebud Valley’s original name…
Heritage Park, Calgary
Today our tour guides Harry & Pat took us to the Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, that opened on July 1, 1964. The Park is located on 127 acres of parkland on the banks of the Glenmore Reservoir, and is Canada’s largest living history museum. Exhibits span Western Canadian history from the 1860s to…
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump and The Frank Slide
We all got an early start and drove to the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a World Heritage Site, located where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains begin to rise from the prairie. The buffalo jump was used for 5,500 years by the indigenous peoples of the plains to kill buffalo by driving them off the 36 foot…
Gliding at the Cu Nim Gliding Club, Black Diamond Alberta
We are off to Cochrane today to visit Pat and Harry Koehler in Calgary, Alberta. We arrived at the Bow Rivers Edge RV Park early and made it to Pat & Harry’s by 4pm. Great to see them again and to meet their family. Excited for the 2 weeks that we are going to spend…
Kananaskis Country
Today we did a driving tour on a gravel road from Canmore to the Kananaskis Country, we wanted to get away from the “maddening crowd” and figured there would not be too many tourists on a gravel road. The drive was very scenic following the Kananaskis River and at one point we had to stop…
Moraine Lake and Lake Louise
Moraine Lake Today we drove from Canmore to Banff National Park and through the quaint Village of Lake Louise to Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks. The best view of the Lake is from the Rockpile, where you can see its amazing distinct shade of blue-green due to the refraction of light…