July 7 & 8

We stayed in a beautiful place in Lake Louise, Alberta last night....  All kinds of amenities - except an accessible  wifi.  Now I'm sitting in a Huskey truck stop in Hinton with great connectivity..... go figure.

The miracle worker at the credit union, Jen, made our overnight paperwork happen. Larry and I had to sign some papers and mail it back to her while we were still in the US.. so there  was a bit of a hunt for a post office on our way out of town. There is always a silver lining. Great kids on their bikes out in front of the post office just a few miles before crossing into Canada.

CANADA... Oh! Canada!  This 315 mile ride into the Rockies was Ahhhh-may-zing.  All  three of us ran out of memory on our cameras.  (I'll fill in some pics tonight- hopefully.) Spectacular.  Take yourself there..... Completely majestic, striking beauty 360 degrees all afternoon.

and even animals...

July 8
Those mountains with fog and numerous rainbows made the first couple hours of Friday morning almost spiritual.....

  We also saw a bear..

and a little closer up....

The day went pretty rapidly down hill from there...
You know that pain that starts right across your shoulders? ... kind of a burning sensation spreads down your spine and into your arms? It was mostly in the 40s all day with tremendous wild gusts of wind and a driving rain. We stopped at about 7:00 pm (our original destination was still 89 miles away) and had a conference. It wasn't really safe trying to maneuver the bikes through water and tractor trailer trucks under those conditions.  So.... here we are - drying out-- God Bless you Larry for doing laundry and drying out the gear - and hoping tomorrow brings the sunshine back. 








Good point, Robin! BC is a LOT bigger than Montana....... maybe one day we'll get to the other side of it!
We went somewhere in the vicinity of 400 miles today.