Friday, June 29. This is where we were staying after we left the Provincial Park down by the U.S. border. The name of the town is Donald and there really is no town, it's a train station. The maps here and some of the local signs refer to the place as Donald Station. We hear trains often but not so much that they are annoying. On one of our day trips we went west and saw the train yard, it is a freight station is all we can guess. The RV park is huge, there must be 130+ sites but because it is 15 miles from the nearest town it's not very busy. I would say during our stay there were probably as many as 10 RV's staying here at one time and as few as 5. Lucky us!
Jenny likes this park because there is a LOT of green area for her to sniff and do her business. Here is a pic of her on one of our walks:
Saturday, June 30. Today we did a trip to the Columbia Ice Field south of Jasper. The drive over was beautiful even if we did get a little bit of rain along the way. We could've walked out to the Ice Field but opted not to because of the rain and the wind.
This is just an example of the scenery along the way to the Ice Field.
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Sunday, July 1, Happy Canada Day! We decided to take a short day trip today so we went west into Mount Revelstoke National Park and then into Glacier National Park. (not the same Glacier in the states, just named the same) The day started out with a little rain but by the time we got to the park it had cleared and warmed up, we had to shed our long sleeve shirts!
This was one of our stops, an interpretive walk called the Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk. Look at the size of that leaf!! I bet I could use it as a sun shade...
We stopped at another interpretive hike called the Rock Garden. A local artist made the spirals that are embedded in the rocks. It looked like it might rain so we had our jackets on but shed them pretty quick.
There were lots of waterfalls along the drive as well as several wildlife overpasses, at least that's what I think these are.
Monday, July 2. Today we drove to Lake Louise and then into Banff for lunch. The traffic into Lake Louise was INSANE! This is a long weekend for Canadians because of Canada Day so everybody and their brother was out enjoying the day! We were able to park on the road outside the entrance and walk in which really worked out well by avoiding the congestion in the parking lots. Sheesh! It really is a beautiful setting but I have to tell you, Navajo Lake in the Lizard Head Wilderness area north of Dolores is just as pretty. Lake Louise is named after one of Queen Victoria's daughters. It was originally called Emerald Lake but was changed to Lake Louise in the late 1800's. Mike was taking our picture together by holding the camera out at arms length when a woman came over and offered to take our picture. She had a Michigan sweatshirt on and I told her we were going there later this month. She and her husband spend 6 months in Green Valley, AZ and the other 6 in Michigan or traveling. She took a nice picture of us.
It was only about an hour over to Banff which was good because we were starting to get hungry! As we drove into downtown we saw a parking garage and headed for it. It was FREE parking! How cool is that! Also on that same block was a small mall with a restaurant on the top floor. That's where we had lunch. That's me on the balcony, Mike had walked down to the street to take a picture of the place.
These are the views looking left and right from our balcony seat!
The drive back to the RV park was interesting in that the traffic heading west was very light but the traffic heading east was bumper to bumper! Campers, RV's and all kinds of vehicles pulling boats were heading home to Calgary and other points east. I'm glad we decided to stay in this area through the night of the 2nd instead of trying to drive over to the Edmonton area today.
Tomorrow morning, July 3, we head for Edmonton. Stay tuned!
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