Planes, Trains, Boats, and Automobiles!

All Good Things Must End: The Drive to Calgary for Our Flight Home to Connecticut October 15-16, 2018 Monday, October 15, 2018 After a brilliant day yesterday, we were in no hurry to leave Tunnel Mountain this morning.  Even so, we were packed and ready to go shortly after 10 a.m. and we headed toward Calgary. Along the road out of Banff we passed a few big horn sheep nibbling at something along the roadside. I was amazed at how quickly the landscape changed from mountains to prairie and then to the city limits of Calgary.   Prairie Between Banff and Calgary Prairie Between Banff and Calgary Calgary Calgary Skyline Calgary skyline By lunchtime we arrived at the Residence Inn Calgary Airport, checked in, and then headed next door to the Courtyard, where we had a nice lunch.  Jeff and Peter took the car back to the rental agency and Betty Lou is having a nap.  I finished my second glass of wine and am now in our ro...

Lake Louise and Banff  October 12-14, 2018 Friday, October 12, 2018 We were up bright and early this morning as we planned to leave Jasper at about 9:30 a.m. and head to Lake Louise.  My alarm went off at 7:30 a.m., and unlike at home when I am content to sleep in a bit and have a leisurely wake up, I was out of bed and organizing our suitcases.  Jeff was a bit slower to get up, but eventually he got up and dressed.  Folks were enjoying breakfast and coffee, and we were all doing our part to clean up the place as best we could.  We never did see our hostess or her family -- other than encountering Nero, the doberman, one afternoon on our way back from town. We were all loaded up, in the car, and on our way at 9:40 a.m.  The skies over Jasper were brilliant blue, but as we headed up into the mountains of Banff National Park, it was cloudy and rainy.  And ... only two degrees celsius.  Before long the snow was flying, and at one point...