We kinda took a day off from travel today. We only traveled in the car for about 110 miles.(that is a short trip). We went to Canada's Glacier National forest. Saw glaciers and glacier tunnels.. Never knew they put tunnels across the highway to prevent snow from crashing down on your car.
Also, snow was melting into waterfalls right before our eyes, as it go up in the 80's today. No bear sightings, however, even though the park has a high population of black and grizzly bears. We saw more cute prarie dogs, however.
The "day off" included grocery shopping, laundry, housekeeping and cleaning the bugs off the windshield and front of the RV, We even cleaned the radiator. It will become a daily ritual I am sure.
The park had wifi, so we were able to catch up on email. Now that we are in Canada, phone costs are very high and using our hot spot cost-prohibitive. We are traveling two more Canada national parks tomorrow that are skirting the mountains and have glaciers all along side the roads. In fact the road is called "icefields parkway, highwy 93 in Alberta, CA. The drive is reputed to be the most scenic in Canada. We will spend the day doing that trip. Come Monday, we are going to drive some miles each day, trying to make it to Fairbanks by June 4th so we can close on our land sale. Should be challenging.
Speaking of a challenge, we read that there are a couple of spot on the Icefields Parkway that have 9 and 11 percent grades. Apparently many rvs travel it every year, but we will be watching out for those spots. Hope Marv is driving! Linda
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