Believe it or not, after getting to bed really late on Day 4, I actually got up at 6am and we were at Starbucks by 6:20 and on the highway at 6:30. The downside was that I could barely keep my eyes open during many legs of the all-day drive. The main reason for the early start was I/we wanted daylight the whole way...because we were driving through the Canadian Rockies.
An hour and a half in I needed a pit stop in Hope. I have a favorite coffee house there called The Blue Moose. Guess I shoulda taken a photo of the blue moose instead of the bear across the street...
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The first real sign of spring...
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Then a hundred miles later we're back in winter...
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Seriously...this is the middle of May?
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We made a pit stop in Salmon Arm (yes, that's the name of the town)...where you can find DeMilles - the grooviest market/farm ever. In the summer they have delicious cherries the size of golf balls...we bought honey pots, fresh veggies and I even bought some authentic sponge toffee (I'll take a photo of that later)...
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DeMille's also has a bunch o' farm animals...
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Baaa-haa-haa.
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This particular peacock is actually a ham.
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This guy reminds me of the dude in Pirates with the snakey beard.
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A Real Rock Star
My obsession with tunnels continues...
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The snow and near-blizzard conditions hit us again from Golden, BC to Banff, Alberta. So, even though it was daylight all the way to Banff, we couldn't see shit... :-( and apologize for not having pictures of the amazing Canadian Rockies. Feel free to google image them.
Geez, snow even stuck to the ground at the Banff Springs Hotel...
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And Banff Avenue was pretty nasty...
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We hit our final destination in Calgary somewhere around 9pm.
Miles traveled: 600.
Hours in car: 13 1/2 because we lost an hour going into MST.
Went to sleep: I dunno...12:30 or 1am?
Woke up: 8am...a little shaky and slightly unprepared for what came next.
1 comment:
Wow! you can't even see the mountains at the end of the street! I know what you mean about driving at night up there. When I went to Banff, we pulled over and slept for awhile in the car in the middle of nowhere - I was scared to death to get out! Bears, big bears, hungry bears!
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