Sunset Mountain Inn Canmore

After leaving our free camping spots and finding an Alberta boo-boo (Masen or Mason) at our favourite breakfast spot (it has a toilet), we headed down the road to greener pastures along highway forty towards Hinton. While exploring the area using the van we saw deer, both white-tailed and mule, coyotes and Big Horn sheep.<br> Pierre Grey Lakes was our first camping stop; the campground was well manicured, did not allow any gas boat motors and ...

... of mountain goats licking the minerals from the side of the road. They just stayed and let the many who stopped take pictures. Then it was on to the falls. After leaving the falls and making the climb up the pass, we stopped at the overlook for the Sunwapta River valley. The altitude at the point is over 6000 feet with the mountains still looming l000's of feet higher. After a quick stop at the Athabasca ...

After a weekend of snowboarding we were buzzing with energy, raring to go but sadly bed ridden due to the multitude of aches and pains. That ruled oot any sort of activity on Monday other than experiencing the dire daytime telly whilst getting this thing up to date. We may not have lived the travellers dream that day, but what a lovely lie in. The next day we didn't do too much better, but the time finally came when it was time to leave the comfort of ...

On Day 2, we drove south towards Athabasca Falls, then headed up a rocky, unpaved road to hike the Geraldine Lakes trail. We made it past the first lake and midway towards the second, finally turning around at a massive rockpile. Afterwards we went into Jasper for a dinner of Japanese food. Details in the photos!

... entries and beautiful photos. [/shameless plug] Anyway, my mom had been an empty nester for a few weeks when I came back. Then I left, and a few weeks later my younger sister Kim arrived home from Vancouver. At the end of August she moved to Toronto to do her Master's program here. So now my mom is finally getting a taste of freedom! Anyway, here are the beginning of the road trip photos. We left early in the morning, got to ...

... are full so we spent the Wednesday and Thursday nights in a B&B type place (but without the breakfast!). On the Wednesday we went to the summit of a local mountain - Whistlers mountain. This involved a cable car to 2270M and then a walk up to the top at 2470M. The views from the top were really good and we went a bit further by walking along the peak. We also met a Marmot (a squirrel like creature but ...

... visit and all the medication cost me 71 pesos which is the equivillant of about 8 or 9 dollars Canadian. That was the cheapest doctors visit of my life. Teotiuacan from what I was able to remember was simply amazing. So massive and awe inspiring. I learned alot from the guide that day, as well as from all the books I have on the subject at home. I would love to go back one day. I went back to the hostel and went to bed. We got up at 4 am to get a cab. The cab ride was cool ...

... we have almost 2grand to spend between the 2 of us for 2 weeks. I think that will be fine. lol. I know we could have done it for a third of what we have, but, we will be the ones having the most fun down there. I want to go kayaking for sure, surfing for sure, hiking, I want to visit Teotihuacan and Monte Alban, and I want stay in some funky places and eat some amazing food, and of course, come back with alot of stuff. So ya, I will keep ya posted.

... wont be updating it everyday though just so you know. I will be having way too much fun. he he he Anyway, I will have to figure out how to put pics on this thing. Well, I have to go to sleep so I can go to work and make lots of money so I can do this more often...! Ciao, Sara and Jesse

... time! - Canada has all the US cultural imports including masses of junk food, and fast food outlets. The North American obesity epidemic is no surprise when you look at what's on offer. There are free upsizes and buy one get one frees on so much junk you'd find it cheaper to feed yourself and the homeless than just pay for what you actually want. It's actually a lot cheaper, as well as convenient, to eat fast food rather than healthy food in Canada, given the ...