JASPER and BANFF NATIONAL PARKS!!!
Finally the slog across the plains made it all worth while. The scenery along the highway 16 and along the scenic parkway 93 thru the parks were some of the most spectacular I have seen from a bike.
Took the winding and twisting road up to the Miette Hotsprings. Good for a soak... if you have not yet noticed I am a hotsprings nut!
Cutest little sheepers following its mother timidly.
Roadside chillin.
Met another cyclist - finally! in Jasper - Wes and I were both keen on chillin ourselves for a day. Had a great time eating chicken and drinking beers on a park bench in town. Doing Jasper cheap cyclist style.
"Can I get some of you toothpaste?" will never have the same meaning! I was duped by another traveler!
The highway south to Banff from Jasper is one of the most scenic I have ever seen. I snakes along beautiful rivers with spectacular waterfalls all the way up to the Columbia Icefields and back down again.
The color of the rivers here are unreal!
Some paintbrushes alongside the road.
Storms a brewing - managed to miss all the storms that day - it seemed that it was either raining ahead of me or behind - some day as just lucky!
The flat peaks reminded me so much of Boulder, CO = yeah Bolderites!
Morning mist/fog.
Making my way to the the glacier.
Finally at the top!
Parents, watch you kids! I luv signs!
The way back down.
Formation in a canyon - hole in the rock of Marble Canyon.
Sunset
The next day I was not so lucky and the storms caught up with me. This is what is looks like to dry your socks after getting completely soaked by an early snowstorm. Could only travel about 20km that day and ended up camping at Bowline Pass because it was too cold and dangerous to go down the hill.
The next morning was a more of the same, but a little better.
Time to head to town and lower ground where the sun is shining and the layers can come off!
Or to Banff town and the most crowded hot springs I have ever been to...
Banff on a holiday weekend is crazy!
Left town on the main interstate and headed towards Kooteney National Park. They have constructed a few overpasses here for the animals to travel safely over the highway.
I luv canyons!
Burn area in the park. Spent the night at yet another hotsprings - Radium.
Meet Daisy - my cow friend. We are going to California where happy cows live.
Cute Cafe outside of Whiteswan Hotsprings.
Ma, have you been hanging out in Canada?
Great pools and a great soak with amazing people. Met the three Spaniards below - they are traveling in an awesome van.
We stayed up late and caught a glimpse of the Northern Lights - best light show I have ever seen.... too bad I didnt know my camera could take long exposures until yesterday....
Some of you know what I'm talking about! Frosty Boy - everyone gets a lick!
Crossing the border into the US. Never before have I been drilled so hard to get back into my own country. Where do you work? Have you been arrested? Did you pack your own bags? Where do you live? All questions I really did know the answers to.... good thing I didnt loose my American passport.
Canada was great fun but it is good to be back in the states! Met a really nice fella by the name of Bob in Bonners Ferry. He let me crash in his yard - first shower and laundry since Whitehorse! Good welcome back the the US.
Not sure where I am going yet - but will figure it out sometime soon.
You can check out my travels so far on Google Maps
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