Category: Alberta
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Canadian Rockies the second time around!
Aug 1-8 When you love a place with stunning scenery that brings unforgettable memories, you may wish to revisit and experience that joy again. We don’t normally do “repeats” because there’s so much more of the world for us to see. But we recently made exceptions by traveling around Vancouver Island, then boarding the Rocky…
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Oh so famous Lake Louise – Alberta, Canada
Our final stop in the Canadian Rockies was ever-popular and very crowded Lake Louise.  Located in Banff National Park, it’s one of the best known lakes in the Rocky Mountains. Even a little girl we met in Montana gushed with excitement when she overheard me mentioning it to her parents. If you’ve missed our previous Canadian Rockies…
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Captivating Icefields Parkway – Canadian Rockies
Highway 93 is a major north/south highway that begins in Jasper, Canada and ends in Wickenburg, AZ, 1,720 miles away.  The stretch from Mile 0 to Mile 144 is known as the Icefields Parkway, and it links Jasper to Lake Louise in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.  It winds along the Continental Divide, through Jasper National…
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Wonderful Jasper National Park – Jasper, AB, Canada
This post details stop #4, at Jasper National Park.  It’s loaded with pictures of stunning scenery and awe-inspiring natural wonders of the Rocky Mountains. Although the weather was not always picture perfect, I managed to capture a lot of the surrounding beauty.  The cameras stayed warm on this stop! We didn’t waste any time upon our arrival in…
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Visiting friends in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The map below is the route and stops we made while in Alberta.  If you missed our previous stops, click here for stop #1 and here for stop #2.  For our third stop, we could have driven straight to Jasper National Park via Banff National Park.  But we had Canadian friends in Edmonton that we were excited to…
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Sightseeing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Following our wonderful journey on the Rocky Mountaineer and a few days in Banff, a bus took us back to Calgary Airport where we had left our car when we flew to Vancouver. We hastened back to Cochrane, where Betsy was patiently waiting at Bow Rivers Edge Campground. Our first glimpse of Calgary was the rows and rows…
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Banff National Park – Banff, AB, Canada
After being spoiled and indulged aboard the Rocky Mountaineer, we disembarked at our final destination, Banff, a busy town within Banff National Park.  We didn’t bring Betsy here, planning instead to stop at Lake Louise later to meet up with friends.  So instead we extended our stay to three nights and rented a car for our explorations. Banff…
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles – Vancouver to Banff, Canada
As you may have noticed I’ve been absent from the blogosphere recently.  Once again, blogging and reading friend’s blogs must take a back seat.  Our days here in Alberta, Canada have been a marathon of fun, and tapping keys on the computer just hasn’t been happening 🙂 I’ve taken many pictures of the stunning Canadian Rockies for all to view…
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A hidden crown jewel – Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada
It’s always music to our ears when “Randy” (our Rand McNally GPS) announces we’re crossing a state border, but it’s even more exciting when we cross an international border. So it was as we entered Alberta at the Chief Mountain crossing, just north of Glacier NP. After answering questions such as “Did you bring firewood?”, “Where do you…
