We have put on a few miles since my last blog and we have gone over 9000 miles so far on the trip! We are just outside of Winnipeg tonight and by tomorrow night we will be back in the States! I probably will not update again while we are on the road unless we find something really interesting or fun. I am running out of space on my IPad for picture storage and I have very few apps left to delete :-o. I should be able to hook back up to the cloud when I get better internet in the states and then I can offload my pictures and free up space.
We decided to go through Jasper and Banff National Parks because Dave still didn’t have a good bear picture…he still doesn’t but I will get to that later. Our first night after leaving Dawson Creek was at a very nice provincial park in the little town of Grande Cache Alberta. It is always hit and miss if we are going to fit into a provincial park with our size rig, but this was a nice pull through with nightly bears which of course we didn’t see.
Alberta has loads of money from oil, natural gas, coal and minerals and yet some of the worst roads. But I digress onto our trip.
From Grande Cache we worked our way into Jasper National Park and it is gorgeous and worth the crappy roads. We got many pictures of Mountain Sheep and Mountain Goats and beautiful scenery. We stayed the night in the parking lot of the Colombia Icefield where we were charge $15.70 for no facilities and we slanted toward the road, but to wake up to the icefield was priceless and very cold with no heat. I saw a chipmunk when I took the dogs out for their nightly stroll so was excited about that. The next day we headed for Lake Louise, Banff and then Calgary, but ended going onto Swift Current Saskatchewan a very long day. The next day we were in Regina and now Winnipeg.
Back to Dave’s bear….well we think we saw a grizzly’s butt! Seeing the mountains help Dave get over the loss of a bear picture kind of 😦
Enough typing now for some pictures.
The baby and his mommy:-)
Hope you have been enjoying the blog as much as I have had writing it and of course taking the pictures!
Travels with Beau and Bailey 
Your pictures and trip have been very enjoyable.
Keep them coming and safe travels.
Bernie Hinkle
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