So we got a hotel finally. This picture shows the view we paid for. Well, its much more of a motel than a hotel, but it will do for tonight just fine. We want a shower, and the $82 price tag doesnt even seem so bad after this long on the road. They dont even mind the dogs. We are in Fox Creek, Alberta which seems to be an oil workers haven. We've been seeing alot of remote oil field equipment through the last few towns, Edson and Whitecourt were the last two. We took a roundabout way to get where we are tonight, today we drove from a campground about 80 miles outside of Calgary through Banff National Park, then up the Icefields Parkway to Jasper National Park. We've been around this area a few times before, but even having seen so much of this stuff before, it never gets old.
Stopped at the Athabasca Falls in Jasper which has to be one of my favorite spots to see. I love this place, its all power and water and energy. The silty water just cuts holes in this rock around there like crazy and at the falls you can see it all.
Drove on through the park from there, stopped in Jasper and hopped from block to block looking for an open wireless network. Finally found one and sat for an hour in the Jasper United Church parking lot.
Tomorrow we will be driving on into British Columbia and moving on down the road.
Until we get internets again,
Justin