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By DCtoANC
November 4th 2005

Canada North America » Canada » Alberta

We finally made it into Canada yesterday (Thursday, 11/3) at about 5:30pm. We crossed the border at Roosville, CA, just above Eureka, MT. We ended up going through Montana fairly fast - we went to Bozeman, Butte, Missoula and a few smaller towns. We didn't take any pictures in MT. Right now (Friday, 11/4, 7:30am), we're in Okotoks, just about 20 minutes outside of Calgary. We didn't get here until about 11pm last night, and there are only two hotels in town - both kind of pricey. The ground was too frozen to pitch our tent, so we just slept in [View Full Entry]

By atm2005
November 2nd 2005

Reality North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

As i write this i am feeling extremely low and actually very down, the worst i've actually felt since i began travelling. Im still in Banff in the Rocky Mountains which overall has been a really nice place to stay. However right now things feel really bad, and i don't know what to do about it frankly. People say that you learn a lot about yourself when you go travelling, i consider myself a very self-aware person anyway, but what this does seem to be doing is reawakening my own issues within my own consciousness, things that i probably havn't thought [View Full Entry]

By Lucy999
November 1st 2005

No Baltis in Banff North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

It's official. I have looked everywhere, there really are no Balti house in Banff. Anything else, and you're laughing, there is Canadian, French-Canadian, American, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Swiss (!), English, Irish, MacDonalds...but if you mention Indian you get looked at like you're from another planet. I don't think they have even heard a Garlic Chilli Chicken Bahar our here, let alone know where to recommend a good one. The closest I've seen is a jar of Pataks Korma curry paste in the supermarket for an extortionate price..... there are some serious sacrifices that I've had [View Full Entry]

By atm2005
October 31st 2005

The Banff Mountain Film Festival North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

During our time in Banff the Banff Mountain Film festival was occurring, this gave us an opportunity to go and see some of the movies that were showing there. The most notable one that we saw was a film from Bhutan called "Travellers and Magicians", it was a story of a man who lives in Bhutan who has to make a journey across the country and during this journey he meets other travellers, one of whom is a tibetan monk who tells him a story. The film flits between the story and the reality of their journey and the journey they [View Full Entry]

By atm2005
October 30th 2005

Mountain walk North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

Hiking has been a big part of what we have done in the Rockies, but the most memorable hike of all was the walk we took up Sulphur Mountain on a very snowy day. Sulphur Mountain is probably not one of the biggest mountains in Banff, but its meant to take 2 to 5 hours to negotiate the path all the way up (and down) and on a day as snowy as this one it was even harder. We began around 12.20pm and at first were really determined to make it up, but the more we climbed the harder and harder [View Full Entry]

By atm2005
October 29th 2005

Percy the superhero North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

Ah-ha this is my most interesting diary entry so far and one in which i learned something... Ok, recently we decided to go for a hike along the Bow River, a fairly thin but very long river than runs through the national park. While we were doing this we noted that part of the walk was way above the river (about 60 feet), it was more like a path at the top of a cliff than anything else. Part of the path was harder to walk on than another part and when walking on the latter it felt very unsafe as [View Full Entry]

By atm2005
October 28th 2005

Lake Louise and beyond North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

During the first few days in Banff we hired a car. This was a new thing for me because i have never driven in a foreign country before and never on the right side of the road. The first day i was extremely nervous and drove pretty slowly throughout the day, it was notable however that the other drivers tended to be extremely courteous, very different from the UK. On this day we drove to the nearby town of Canmore which is very similar to Banff, though it is located just outside of the national park. This was fine for a [View Full Entry]

By atm2005
October 27th 2005

Hot water North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

The first significant attraction that we checked out in the Rockies was the Hot Springs located u Sulphur Mountain. This is a spa pool that uses the naturally hot spring water from up the mountain. It is located in a position where you have mountain views all around, and it is an outside pool despite the fact that it can be very cold up there. The water temperature is 40 degrees C and so it is very hot. It is reccommended that one does not stay in there for more than 20 minutes at a time, but it was clear that [View Full Entry]

By almond
October 24th 2005

Debbie and Keegans Awesome Adventure North America » Canada » Alberta » Calgary

Can you believe it, one week today we start out on our travels. I've been packed for about a month, but am constantly revising it. Keegan, may pack the night before if he can manage to stay home long enough. We are going on a travel agent's Fam to China. I know 3 other agents that are going to be on this tip. We begin in Bejiing and end in Shanghai. We are doing a 4 night Yantze River Cruise, through the 3 gorges. Bye for now. [View Full Entry]

By Lucy999
October 23rd 2005

Deja Vu North America » Canada » Alberta » Banff

Well 8 months have passed and I'm back in Banff. I'm not sure that anyone believed me at the time when I said I would come back here but here I am! The place is exactly the same (not surprising really!), just quieter, and it's cold! It's colder than it was the day that we arrived in February (the taxi driver said that it was meant to get to 17 degrees this afternoon though, I'm not sure that I believe him!). There's no snow, but there is a really heavy frost, and there is snow on the hilltops around the town. [View Full Entry]

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