Randy & Lynn's Great Adventure: July 16--Icefield Parkway

Lynn:

Some thoughts about camping the way we’re doing it. Reminds me of the game Concentration, where you see something for just a second and then you have to remember where it is later. When you have dozens of items stored in plastic boxes, coolers, suitcases and bags, and you have all this stowed here and there, it is quite the challenge to remember where it all is.

I don’t know how many times we've said the words, “I know I just saw it. It has to be here.” Oh, by the way, has anybody seen Randy’s tennis shoes? Somehow they turned up missing three days ago. How does that happen? He thinks they’re in Montana.

Drove from Banff to almost Jasper. It took all day. Of course by the time we had breakfast in the tent,

re-packed everything and left the campgrounds, it was 11:30 a.m. People were waiting in their cars in line to get our spot. The Icefield Parkway was everything it was advertised to be and more. Stopped for the night just short of Jasper at the Sunwapta Lodge. It’s obviously been around for a while but it has a certain charm and is the only lodging for miles. It had a surprisingly good restaurant, where we enjoyed what will probably be our last good meal for the next three weeks. That meal consisted of Elk pot pie and Buffalo spaghetti Bolognese.