Trips by Adventure: Trip to Alaska and West Coast

July 22, 2013 – We departed Fort Macleod for The Canadian Rockies. We found a camp site in Canmore, AB ( Wapiti). It is a municipal owned site about 10 miles from Banff and 40 miles from Lake louise. The camp sites only have electric or nothing. There is no internet or phone service. They charge $35 a day for a site with electric. We have a wonderful view of the mountains. We went through the large city of Calgary. It looked like a modern up to date city. The GPSs got lost because of a street that was closed but after a little site seeing they got us back on the road to Canmore. Canada is a very beautiful place. It is clean and kept up much like Germany. They do not have billboards along the highways which helps to make the countryside look a lot better. We are now on the metric system – liters, kilometers, Celsius. We have weather report that it is 18 c and speed limits of 110 k and gasoline sold in liters. We purchased gasoline tonight that was $74.61 for 60.704 liters. The sign out front showed $1.22 for regular. In US money and measure that is $71.95 for 16.03630027 gallons or $4.49 a gallon. It is about like driving the boat for gasoline cost except we get much better gas mileage. The area we are in is like being in Gatlinburg for prices. You can not get to for away to not have a McDonald’s or Wendy's next door to our camp ground. Tomorrow, we plan to go into Banff National Park , visit the town of Banff, and visit Lake Louise.