What an incredible place. Banff is Canada’s first national park created in 1885, surrounded by gorgeous lakes and mountains. The park encompasses 2,564 square miles with 96 percent wilderness. The resort town of Banff has about 8,000 residents which must meet a “need to reside” requirement, i.e. they must work within Banff. Visitors primarily stay […]
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Before reaching Banff, Greg & Helen had one more day in Mount Robson campground and they took full advantage of the beautiful weather (in the 70’s). First, they went on a 9-mile hike which included a stop at the Kinney Lake (the gorgeous feature photo) and then, if that was not enough, they hiked to
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We arrived in Prince George, British Columbia, seeing our first stoplight just outside of town. This must be a big city!! It does have a population of almost 77,000. After seeing stores after stores and dozens of restaurants, we arrived to our RV park a bit outside of the main “city” in a beautiful wooded
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We have a few days to explore before our Banff National Park reservations, so we stayed two extra nights at our next stop in Smithers, B.C. Smithers was named after Sir Alfred Smithers, the chairman of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway who had selected the location as one of their stops in 1913. This is when
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We have been so fortunate with weather cooperating in our travels. We had heard that it rains so much in Alaska, especially when you are around the coast, so bring proper rain gear. I brought two rain jackets (one with a warm liner), rain pants, and rain boots, which I have worn only a handful
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As you can see from the feature photo, we were finally were able to watch bears interact and chomp on Salmon. Yay! More on that a bit later. We left Continental Divide RV Park, with a quick stop for fuel in Watson Lake, and headed south on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway. The 450-mile Cassiar is
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Dave and Brenda graciously said if we wanted to take the Top of the World Hwy to Dawson City, they would wait for us in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. I have an interest in gold mining and gold mining equipment so I was excited to see the Klondike. H and I had heard the stories of
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Earlier we shared that we upgraded the axles on the Mini-T (our Imagine 17MKE travel trailer). Dave was concerned on the uneven wear on one of the trailer tires and we made an appointment in Anchorage for a reputable shop to put 2 new, heavier axles on our trailer. We should good now, right?
If you remember, in the last blog I mentioned we needed special footwear for our next stop. Yep…we needed micro spikes, which are metal spikes attached to a rubber harness that is stretched over the bottom of hiking boots. We were off to hike on the Matanuska Glacier. Another fun Alaskan adventure! The Matanuska
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Whittier was our last stop on our tour around the Kenai Peninsula. Everything we read said to be tolerant of the persistent rain in the Kenai Peninsula. Just do what you want to do in the rain (probably like Seattle, WA). But, we so fortunate. It rained the day we drove from Anchorage to Hope,
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