Sept 28

We started our day in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. This town is in the Jasper National Park and joins the Banff National Park. While Banff is very commercialized, Jasper is still a quaint town whose specialty is “nature.” They advertise lots to do such as camping, hiking, canoeing, biking, etc. For this type of activity, we should have taken this trip 20 years ago! So we took a walk through town. They have a renovated train depot and James wanted his picture there because Brooks LOVES trains. As you can see from the pictures, the town is on one side of the street and is about 4 blocks long. After we stopped at the bakery and got a cup of coffee we headed out toward Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We won’t make it tonight but we should be there tomorrow. The drive has been very pretty and we got a picture of the last glacier we will see in Canada. That picture is also taken in front of the welcome center that has such beautiful flowers. Just shows the variance in temperature based on the elevation. The sign at the welcome center indicated that glacier was on Mount Robson and the elevation there was 3,954m (that is meters – not miles.) We have decided to stay in Kamloop which is a city of approximately 90,000. We started our day at 7 a.m. Mountain Time and it is now 7 p.m. Pacific Time. That is a 13 hour day – it is time to stop for the night! Our last photo of the day is a beautiful sunset over the mountain and reflecting Thompson River.