Monday-Saturday, August
7-19, 2017
As we head to Calgary we
drive skirt Glacier National Park. We
don’t have plans during this trip to stop as we figure someday we’ll head back
this way to visit Joyce and Duain and we’ll explore it together. Delaying it gives me more time to lose some
weight and get into better shape. Our
friends are very fit and I am not….We do see our first glimpse of the Rockie
Mountains. The mountain range is massive
making the mountains in Vermont seem so small. Impressive!
We have no issues
crossing the border this time…phew! I drove over the border and had a nice
interaction with the officer. He would
ask me where we were going, I’d answer and then he asked me again and I would answer. After answering for the third time I came
back with my own question of “Is there somewhere else we should go?” at which
point he laughed and said …no, have a nice trip. We enter providence of Alberta with a welcome
sign that declares it as Wild Rose Country.
We’re scheduled to meet
up with our hosts after 7:00pm but arrive earlier so we stop at an A&W for
a bite to eat and to work on a crossword.
It’s interesting to see businesses that at one time had quite a presence
in the States still have a big presence in another company. Here in Australia Hungry Jacks (division of
Burger King) and K-Mart are big. K-Mart
holds the position that WalMart holds at home.
Leave Victor, MT (sans
Elwood) – 9:02am - 61° and sunny
Rte.
93N►35N►206N►2E►89N►2N►2A
Gas - Lolo Exxon -
$2.38/gal
Cross the Continental
Divide 1:15pm
Gas – St. Mary Exxon
(before Canada, where prices are higher, as you can see even by the border town)
- $2.99/gal
Canadian Border (very
busy) – 3:02pm-3:23pm
Dinner break
5:30pm-6:30pm
Arrive – Calgary,
Alberta, Canada 7:29pm
Miles traveled – 456.2
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