TUESDAY, SEPT 17

TUESDAY, SEPT 17:

     Left shortly after 8:00.  A beautiful cool, partly sunny morning.  This is another lovely RV park, with wonderful landscaping and terrific owners . . .  too bad it’s not in a more scenic place. 

     About 90 minutes later we came through Prince George.  Stopped at the RV dealership there to get some replacement light bulbs. 

     About 2:00 stopped at McBride, a nice little town  getting closer to the Alberta border.  We stopped there for gas and got some lunch.  Hadn’t had any breakfast, so we were pretty hungry!

     Soon we got into mountain terrain again.  The Canadian Rockies!  Beautiful.  Had wonderful views of Mt Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.  

 

 

       Soon entered Jasper National Park.  We’ll only stay the night here, as we’re driving down to Banff tomorrow to meet Loretta & Steve.  (Loretta is my dear college friend – the one good friend from that era I’ve kept all these years!)  They’re flying into Calgary from L.A. tomorrow – should get settled in their hotel by late afternoon.  We’ll drive down, get settled in our RV site and call them & see when they want to get together.  They’ll be here for 10 days total, dividing time between Banff & Jasper.  We’re not sure how long we’ll stay – for several days, anyway, to spend time with them and explore these two gorgeous Canadian National Parks.   

     Here at Jasper, we drove into the only camping ground which has full hook-up’s, and they were full.  Couldn’t believe it!  Haven’t been at any campground for several weeks which looked anywhere near full.  So they directed us to another nearby campground which has electric only in their overflow parking area.  Which was fine for just one night.  Still beautiful  surroundings, and close enough to the wilderness that 3 female elk were grazing right up to the edge of the asphalt, totally unconcerned about any human presence.