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... The Curry Bowl, here they have dishes from all over Asia, not just India. They also have one of the most comprehensive selections of world beers I have ever seen!

Well fed and watered we settled down back at the condo for a night of beer & games. The beers were good, but yahtzee & mindtrap not quite so great. Yahtzee I could enjoy for a while, but mindtrap was the most bizarre game I have ever encountered. We found it tucked away in the back ...

We are currently at Fernie, staying with a friends, we have left the Rv in Cochrane and are here with one of Jos cousins, her aunt and and assortment of cousins children. The golfing is great in this little town and fishing the Elk river is great, we caught lots of ...

When i had finished at the stables i head to Fort Steele which is at the base of the Rockies. I choose this host as due to my funds dwindling away and i will be unable to do a trip up and through the Rockies by car or bus. But as i said this host is at the base of the rocky mountains so i hope to see great views. OK so another crazy 9 hour bus journey to Fort Steele but unfortunately the bus doesn't make it and ...

Crossed the Rockies, left Jasper National Park behind as we travel through the Kootenay region, past Fort Steele and stop at Cranbrook. Hope the truck is ready as promised tomorrow, we will drive to Kalispell once more and re-visit Eureka MT on the way. What gorgeous weather we have been granted!

Am Morgen haben wir einen Abstecher nach Nelson gemacht. Es hiess in unserem Reiseführer, dass dies ein lohnenswerter Stopp sei, da zahlreiche Gebäude vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts noch in bestem Zustand sind.

Unsere Überfahrt von Balfur nach Kootenay Bay erfolgte mit der längsten Gratisfähre (35 Min.) in Nordamerika.

Über Creston, dort ist die Kokanee Brauerei zu Hause, sind wir in Fort Steele angekommen.

The next morning we had to leave this area of the Rockies and make our way down to our Dude ranch
across the border in Idaho.  We drove out of the National Park but before leaving we stopped at the Paint Pots and took a walk to see where the Indians used to collect the iron ore for their painting of teepees and facial paint.  The Iron ore is pushed to the surface so there are three large pools of terracotta colour. The indians only used what was necessary, making it into ...

... We cruised along admiring the massive stone peaks. We dropped down into a lake valley and navigated over land slides and majorly rocky ground. Parts so bad you had to push.

We ran into a Dutch couple who were loaded to the roof, making me feel a little smug about ditching some of my stuff earlier. I couldn't have deal with more wieght. The guy (Marten) even had a deer antler he found in Alaska. They had come from anchorage which was 4000 miles ...

... I saw a light on in one of the trailers and knocked on the door. A young guy appeared - a gruff redneck type - and I asked if it really was likely that there were bears around (I still clung to the idea that bears were a part of some huge Canadian wind-up). 'Heck yeah' he replied emphatically 'I saw one just this morning'. By now it was dark and I was seriously afraid. I contemplated going straight to bed without eating but I was ravenous with hunger. I took out my cheap ...

... the real estate market and the community to decide if this is some where we could put down some roots. Fernie has gotten more expensive in recent years but compared to the cost of living in a lot of ski resort communities in the US...Fernie is still reasonably priced. Ideally we were looking to find homes priced under $200 000 dollars. It is possible to find homes in this price range....though we found a lot of those to be small, old, on small lots, with some ...

... just as the firemen started shouting "everyone out of the building". As I ran down the stairs the fire alarm at last started ringing. Outside there were three fire trucks and more could be heard in the distance. I lingered and speculated with some of the other tenants as well as bar/restuarant patrons who were forced to evacuate the building. Quickly the excitement wore off and it became freezingly apparent we would ...