Category: RV Travel

Day 40 of the trip – Thursday, June 2nd – was our first full day to explore the Jasper area, and with mixed weather, Maligne Canyon was our first destination. Cathy and I had tried to go there last September, but access was blocked for some reason. In March...

Cathy and I both love the Rockies, and especially the Icefields Parkway and Jasper, so had been looking forward to getting back on this trip. On Day 38 of this journey – Tuesday, May 31st, we headed west, with no particular destination in mind other than somewhere up the...

The 31st day of the trip – Tuesday, May 24th – was so varied that I broke the journal up into 2 posts, the first about our coal-country stops, and this one about Prairie history – the Mounted Police, and buffalo. We didn’t put on many miles this day...

Neither of our overnight locations as we drove the Crowsnest to Fort Steele on Days 28 and 29 were the ones I’d planned on, and the weather was mostly awful, but it was still a beautiful drive. On Day 28 – Saturday, May 21st, we only drove 160 km...

Cathy and I both thought that spending a week at Bear Creek Provincial Park might be a bit too long, but it turned out that it was nowhere near long enough. We did very little touring and didn’t even make it to any wineries (!). But it was an...

Day 19 of the trip – Thursday, May 12th – was a very easy driving day, just 138 km (86 mi) from Stemwinder Provincial Park near Hedley to Bear Creek Provincial Park in West Kelowna. The drive is very scenic, on Highways 3, 3A, and 97 – click here...

The parking lot at the Hope Slide was a great place to overnight, although there was some noise from the truck brake check stop below us. As Day 18, Wednesday, May 11th, began, this was the view from the little window straight ahead of me at the table I...

So far on the trip, I’ve been very lucky with the weather. The only 2 days that were really not pleasant were the day of snow at Summit Lake, and a few hours of rain at Bella Coola. Day 13, though – Friday, May 6th – would take us...

The plan for this 58-day trip is to have very little backtracking, and very few days that focus on the destination instead of the journey, but Day 12, Thursday, May 5th, required both of those to get back to Williams Lake. It would be a longer day for all...

Day 12 of the trip, Tuesday, May 4th, started off early as usual, with a spectacular mountain view out every window from my spot at the Rip Rap Campsite in Hagensborg, a few miles up the valley from Bella Coola. For some reason I had thought about just staying...