Day 29

Wednesday – After catching up on the blog and helping Ryan with some business matters, we left the campsite about 9:45. We planned a big day, 430 miles to get to Jasper, Alberta. Till we finally parked in an IGA parking lot we had driven 480 mile. The local Wal-Mart and the IGA both welcome RV’s to park in their lots. I guess there aren’t enough of campsites because everything was full. We lost an hour when we crossed into Alberta so now we are 2 hours behind what we call home time.
The trip was beautiful with a mix of hay land and cattle in some areas and pine forest in other areas. This was the scenery except for the last 80 mile when we got into the Rockies. Jasper is in the middle of the Rockies and also in the middle of Jasper National Park. Tomorrow we will go south through Jasper National Park and then into Banff National Park. The two parks are connected and all the campsites are public owned so we will more than likely be out of touch till we get close to Calgary on Friday afternoon.