We went to the MEC store in Calgary to get backpacks and some other travelling gear. On the way home Carla just had to stop at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, since she'd never been able to go before. We spent about two hours looking around, which is not near enought time to really get through and appreciate all of the exhibits. [View Full Entry]

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May 29 Hotel: Fairmont Palliser Calgary Our last full day in the Rockies. We didn't really have any plans for the day but we had to be in Calgary tonight as my wife was flying back home early tomorrow. We were looking at things to do/see along the way to Calgary, or near Calgary. I had noticed the Dinosaur Park and the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller on our maps, that sounded like a neat detour.. although it was clear on the opposite side of Calgary from the mountains. We also thought about driving around Kananaskis Country a bit. We showed [View Full Entry]

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Am Samstag, also am 18.10.2008, war also ein von CISSA organisierter Trip nach Drumheller und die Badlands angesetzt. Frueh um 8 Uhr war Treffzeit und um 8.30 Uhr gings los Richtung Flachland. Um mich noch weiter wettertechnisch zu verwirren, fing es an zu schneien (im Flachland!). Der Schnee blieb natürlich nicht liegen, es ist ja immernoch zu warm dafuer. Fuer den Trip hat sich ein CISSA-Volunteer (Tony), ehemals Mitarbeiter im Royal Tyrrell Museum bereiterklaert, unseren Reisefuehrer zu spielen. Erster Stop war der Horseshoe-Canyon, eine sehr interessante Gesteins- und Sandformation, we [View Full Entry]

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In order to take advantage of some very unseasonal warm weather, we decided to hire a car for a couple of days and check out some of the sites of Southern Alberta Drumheller is about 130km out of Calgary and is almost certainly the Dinosaur capital of world. The town has a bit of an obsession with these prehistoric beings and is home to the Royal Tyrell Museum (one of the world’s largest dinosaur museums), the world’s largest dinosaur and a dinosaur of some form or another can be found on nearly every street corner. We didn’t see a copy of [View Full Entry]

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I gave the Last Chance Saloon its own entry because it is so friggin awesome. Anyway after we’d finished there we went and saw a few of the other attractions in Drumheller. The first of which was the Red Deer River Valley Badlands. The Badlands landscape is moon-like in appearance with gullies and twisting and winding canyons that have been intricately eroded. It was named the “badlands” as it was arid and thought to be unsuitable for farming. Although it was later found out to be rich with coal and fossils. I should probably know how the area was formed seeing [View Full Entry]

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After our campervan trip, Scott had to head back to work. The oil rig he works on is off the coast of India and he works 28 days on and then has 28 days off. Going back to work must suck but I can only imagine the excitement he experiences on his last day before 28 days off, I’m excited enough on a Friday afternoon. Nic and Tina’s mum Jenn still had a week or so in Canada so we made a few trips. The first was back towards Banff to do a few walks. The second was to Drumheller. Drumheller [View Full Entry]

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