On a wonderfully air conditioned bus ride from Kamloops, I arrived in small town Cache Creek. I stepped off the bus, immediately feeling the heat. Can I get back on the bus?
The bus driver didn't magically know to drop me off at the RV camp, so I had a long and hot, sweaty walk 2kms up the busy highway to the RV. In the blazing hot sun, with my duffel bag, pillow and my purse, I started my trek. Upon arriving at the beer-bottle-on-the-picnic-table marked RV, I collapsed. Finally. One ice cold root beer later and I was good to go again.
Day one of travelling we drove from Cache Creek, to Glacier National Park via Trans Canada hwy 1.
We stopped in at D Dutchmen Dairy Farm for ice cream, a place my family stopped at about 14 years ago on a family trip. Still looks the same.
That evening we camped in Glacier National Park. We geocached in the area and found beautiful little trails, through rock gardens and old railway beds. At one point, an avalanche path was right over the trail, so we hiked through the snow!
On the way back to camp, we meet a family stopped at the side of the road, who reported seeing a grizzly with two cubs just up the road from our camp site. Great. No sightings sadly.
Day two we left the park and on to Bassano, AB.
Along the way, we drove through the Rockies and up the Big Hill, past the spiral tunnels. Unfortunately, no trains came through.
Driving through Calgary (by mistake) was the most stressful adventure so far. "Hey, there's the Calgary Tower! Never thought we'd see that." Bob was sure surprised to be in down town Calgary.
After missing three exits back to the highway, we finally made our way back on track (keep in mind, there was three GPS's in use at the time, and we still got lost).
In the tiny prairie town of Bassano, mum and I rode around the town finding geocaches and enjoying the flat prairie land.
Day three we left Bassano and went on to Chaplin, SK.
All I can say about the prairies is, it's called the badlands for a reasons: it's mostly flat and there's not much to look. I'll give you a brief description of what we saw.
Grass.
Bushes.
Fences.
A hill!!
More grass.
Tiny town.
A patch of bushes.
Canola flowers.
More hills!
Grain elevator.
Tiny town.
An antelope (that was actually exciting).
Some grass.
You get the idea. It was slow, boring, flat and unfortunately not over yet.
In Chaplin, we drove Jeepy around town finding the five geocaches in the area. By the time we got back to camp, we all needed showers from the sodium sulphate in the air (the lake next to town is the second largest saline water body in Canada).
The walk to the showers near camp was filled with ant tunnels, millions of mosquitoes, and happy gophers making tunnels for us to trip in. Rather different then our walk through tall forests in the mountains two nights ago.
It really is amazing to watch the landscape change each day. From mountains to badlands this week, I'm excited to see what the next couple days bring.
ETR. Unknown.
Gabe.
Day one of travelling we drove from Cache Creek, to Glacier National Park via Trans Canada hwy 1.
We stopped in at D Dutchmen Dairy Farm for ice cream, a place my family stopped at about 14 years ago on a family trip. Still looks the same.
That evening we camped in Glacier National Park. We geocached in the area and found beautiful little trails, through rock gardens and old railway beds. At one point, an avalanche path was right over the trail, so we hiked through the snow!
On the way back to camp, we meet a family stopped at the side of the road, who reported seeing a grizzly with two cubs just up the road from our camp site. Great. No sightings sadly.
Day two we left the park and on to Bassano, AB.
Along the way, we drove through the Rockies and up the Big Hill, past the spiral tunnels. Unfortunately, no trains came through.
Driving through Calgary (by mistake) was the most stressful adventure so far. "Hey, there's the Calgary Tower! Never thought we'd see that." Bob was sure surprised to be in down town Calgary.
After missing three exits back to the highway, we finally made our way back on track (keep in mind, there was three GPS's in use at the time, and we still got lost).
In the tiny prairie town of Bassano, mum and I rode around the town finding geocaches and enjoying the flat prairie land.
Day three we left Bassano and went on to Chaplin, SK.
All I can say about the prairies is, it's called the badlands for a reasons: it's mostly flat and there's not much to look. I'll give you a brief description of what we saw.
Grass.
Bushes.
Fences.
A hill!!
More grass.
Tiny town.
A patch of bushes.
Canola flowers.
More hills!
Grain elevator.
Tiny town.
An antelope (that was actually exciting).
Some grass.
You get the idea. It was slow, boring, flat and unfortunately not over yet.
In Chaplin, we drove Jeepy around town finding the five geocaches in the area. By the time we got back to camp, we all needed showers from the sodium sulphate in the air (the lake next to town is the second largest saline water body in Canada).
The walk to the showers near camp was filled with ant tunnels, millions of mosquitoes, and happy gophers making tunnels for us to trip in. Rather different then our walk through tall forests in the mountains two nights ago.
It really is amazing to watch the landscape change each day. From mountains to badlands this week, I'm excited to see what the next couple days bring.
ETR. Unknown.
Gabe.
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