We made it home yesterday July 18, 2022. We left home June 9 and spent three nights above Summerland, BC where we joined other members of the Summerland ATV Club for a weekend of fun. Leaving there on Sunday June 12, we dropped the ATV at home then hooked on to the car and away we went. We found a quiet spot just off the highway halfway between Greenwood and Grand Forks to spend the night. When we went for our evening walk up the logging road, the mosquitoes were voracious.
Next morning we woke to pouring rain and we mostly drove
with the windshield wipers on for the next two days. Proceeding into Kootenay National Park from Radium
it was very foggy in addition to the rain so no views to be had. The campground at Lake Louise was full so we
had to backtrack a bit to an overflow camping area.
Next day we continued our drive up the Icefields Highway to
Jasper, Alberta where we spent six nights at Snaring Campground. We day tripped from there to all sections of
Jasper National Park and were fortunate to see quite a bit of wildlife and some
beautiful lakes.
Carrying on we spent a night in Whitecourt, AB in an RV Park
then drove on to Donnelly, AB the next day where we parked in my Cousin Judith’s
driveway. She was still working full
time at the school so we saw her in the evenings. We toured around and did some geocaching
during the days.
We left Donnelly on July 5 and stayed the night in Lawrence
Lake Campground just before Athabasca, AB which we had to ourselves all
night. We carried on the next day to
Crow Lake Campground a little over halfway to Fort McMurray where we stayed two
nights. On Friday July 8 we moved up to
Fort McMurray and parked in our daughter’s back yard for four nights. We had a great time there visiting her and her
roommate Richard. We enjoyed a fish fry
feast one night and steaks a couple others.
They have a butcher shop close by that has superb meat. I bought a couple extra ribeyes which we
enjoyed the next two nights on the road.
We took the old road, 881, south and it was nice and
quiet. We spent that night in Bellis Lake
Park then next day moved down to the Carbon East Campground in Carbon, AB which
was reservation only, no onsite registration.
We spent three nights in this nice little park and our reasons were twofold. On Thursday July 14, we drove to
Drumheller and visited our friends Bud and Jackie. We met them in Arizona when we first went to
Caliente back in 2008 and have been friends since. We enjoyed supper with them then they took us
for a great tour around their area.
The next day, Friday, Aileen’s friend from all through high
school Donna and her husband Steve drove out to Carbon from Airdrie to visit
us. Aileen hadn’t seen her for about 52
years and I hadn’t seen her in almost 55 years although we have maintained some
contact over the years. Donna is also my
first cousin twice removed. Her dad and
mine were cousins.
From there it was time to head home after a wonderful trip. We stayed in Cranbrook Saturday night at an
RV park then Sunday we managed to discover a hidden little spot not far from
the highway at 4,100 feet elevation where we were able to go for long walks on
logging roads with no one else about. We were parked on pavement and only two
vehicles and two cyclists went by while we were there. It was only 7C yesterday
morning which made for great sleeping.
I haven’t counted how many thousands of images my four
cameras recorded but there seems to be a lot.
We logged 3,970 kms which would be about 2,481 miles. We poured about $2,500 worth of gas into the
motorhome and $357 into the car during our travels. We saw lots of wildlife along the way,
beautiful scenery and the prairie grain fields were fantastic.
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