Home on The Road

Farewell, Rockies. Farewell. 

Monday of our journey kind of felt like "the end" of our great adventure. In order to deliver the RV back in Missoula on Wednesday by 11am, we had to seriously book it. Our hurried farewells to the Canadian Rockies were in beautiful Canmore where we camped three times and ran lots of errands. Seriously, I'll never be content with the views from my local Safeway ever again. The views from the opposite direction were just as amazing. 

The sky was incredibly CLEAR (of course, just when we had to leave) but it made for a nice drive through Southwestern Alberta. We had heard of the Calgary, Alberta Roundup and Rodeo before, but driving through that area, it totally made sense - horses everywhere! 

I couldn't catch any pictures of the horses, but it was an amazing expanse of wide open prairies with snow covered peaks doting the horizon. I could imagine thousands of buffalo stampeding across the range. 

As we headed for Waterton National Park (the Canadian side of Glacier NP) for the night, we watched the mountains rise up before us on the horizon. We got to the campsite just outside of the park during the afternoon and I caught up on housekeeping - cleaning and laundry while Ada and Colin played at the park. Then we took an evening stroll in Waterton before dinner. It's pretty quaint! 

(Prince of Wales Hotel looking rather majestic) 

(About to stroll through Waterton) 

(The view of the lake from the great hall in  the hotel. Pretty swank. I chatted with a slightly tipsy couple who invite me to have some wine with them. I totally would have if daddy and the kids weren't waiting!) 

Back at camp, we enjoyed a tasty dinner, beautiful views, an amazing sunset, bathing our two babies and some of the most incredible stars we've ever seen.

 

By Monday night, we had been traveling for a solid week, and the RV was really starting to feel like home. From grocery shopping, to doing laundry, to bathing the kids, it was truly like home away from home. I was actually sad our trip was coming to an end. But, Tuesday dispelled those feelings...more on that next time!