Category: Wild Wild West

October 9Canmore to Lake Louise I am almost embarrassed to include this as a leg of the journey, but we changed locations so I guess it counts.  Lake Louise is about an hour and a half from Bow Valley Provincial Park where we stayed last night.  The campground here remains open year round, and seems…

October 8Moose Jaw to Canmore So we begin Day 3 of boringness……..sorry to anyone who lives, or has lived on the prairies, but driving across them is like watching paint dry, like watching grass grow, dry as a dead dingo’s donga, as dull as dishwater, as dry as shite in the desert, extremely boring, I’d…

There is no getting around it……..if you are going to travel across Canada, there will be days when you cannot expect to be inundated with beautiful scenery as you drive along the Trans Canada Highway………this was going to be one of them. We were leaving Falcon Lake, Manitoba, with our target destination Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,…

October 6 Thunder Bay (Kakabeka Falls) to Falcon Lake Manitoba We had a nice viewing of the falls this morning, although I must say the volume of water flowing over the brink was substantially less than during my last visit with Sid & Co.. Still quite the sight. It was back onto the highway at…

October 5 Pancake Bay to Kakabeka Falls Our first night in Plan B at Pancake Bay, and Jutta’s “first ever” night camping, couldn’t have gone better.   It was chilly of sure, but the beds are super comfortable, and the addition of the luxury duvet’s and feather pillows was a nice touch.  Breakfast plans were…