June 15 through 17, 2022
The drive south from Lake Louise to the town of Banff was beautiful. Note the bridges over the highway for critter traffic.
We started our visit to Banff at the Cave and Basin, the birthplace of the Canadian National Park system. There are bubbling thermal hot springs that have been a special place for Indigenous Peoples for over ten thousand years.
The high walkway above the former pool area was a great platform of photos of the surrounding Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Banff has a fine bus system between the huge campgrounds and downtown, so we parked and camp into town to walk around and have an early dinner at a Mexican restaurant called Magpie and Stump.
The campground is a series of parallel extra wide roads with rigs large and small lined up along the sides. Lucee is quite content in her daybed in the back of the camper van.
On Thursday, June 16 we headed east to Calgary in anticipation of meeting up with our friends Dee and Cheryl for the adventure to Alaska. We tried a couple of campgrounds near Calgary that were not very inviting, but ended up at a very nice Lions campground in Okotoks south of Calgary, and Dee and Cheryl arrived on June 17. Doug greeted them with a nice campfire dinner.
On Board Sylvie 
Talk about purple mountain majesty-your photos are 8ncredible! Love the parallel parking campground!
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Hi, Judy and Doug. Recognized many of the photos, including the paddles. So glad you enjoyed your visit to BNP. Which campground did you stay at? Tunnel Mountain? Two Jack Lake?
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Yes, Tunnel Mountain number Two. There are now three of them!
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Don’t you love the critter overpasses?! We should have those in Maine!! Haahaha HUGS!
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Ahoy! The Good land cruiser Sylvie: Your photos are spectacular and bring to mind a painting of a first American in a tiny boat with the caption, “ Oh God, your sea is so vast and my boat so small. “ I’m making progress in recovery with an important evaluation of my injury by an orthopedic doctor next Wednesday. I am not in pain and learning to dial back my daily rhythms and live in the moment. Listening to our neighborhood robin, cardinal and the raucous crows grounds me. Matt
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So good to hear you in fine spirits. We are now in Valdez, Alaska. Not sure when the blog will catch up with us!! Thinking of you, Judy and Doug and Lucee
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