Airstreamers

We are blessed with a beautiful, sunny, 72 degree, no humidity day here in California. Summers here are great. We are glad we don’t have to fight with traffic this morning so skipping San Francisco was a good decision. This part of CA is flat on one side of the highway and has rolling brown hills on the other. There were several windmills on the hills, and lots of fruit and nut trees, grape vines, and other crops. Every so often you would see signs protesting the water shortage caused by congress. We are looking forward to sleeping at a KOA tonight with free WiFi, swimming pool, hook ups, and showers! It will feel like a resort! As we got about 50 miles from LA you could already see the heavy smog in the air. In ... read more

We are heading for California and have about 1200 miles to go in the next 3 days. We have places we want to see on the way down but will see how far we get as Dan has to make it for graduation! Washington is very pretty also and reminds us of TN with all the rolling hills, tall green trees, and the lakes from the bay. We were close to Seattle but didn’t get to see it. One good thing was that it was a beautiful day in Seattle today and we missed the rain! We did get to see Mount Ranier and Mt Saint Helen’s while we were driving. It was weird to see rolling hills then all of a sudden one tall mountain out of nowhere. They both were pretty, but we are ... read more

Feel bittersweet to leave Banff today. It has been wonderful here. Had to do laundry before we left as the boys have only been able to wear jeans one time and they get filthy. Thankfully there was a laundry mat only 5 minutes away. The downside is that it cost $24 to do 4 loads of laundry. While we were doing laundry we were able to eat breakfast, take showers and break down camp which is pretty easy after 2 weeks on the road. We left Banff at around 11:30 and are heading to Victoria, BC on our way down to California. We have 5 days to get there and about 1800 miles to go. We had great weather when we left, but as we headed towards the west coast we ran into rain and fog. ... read more

We went to visit the famous Banff Springs Hotel. We were greeted at the door with a man dressed in a kilt who promptly informed us that we could only visit the bottom 2 floors since we were not staying there. He was nice but we noticed a “rich” atmosphere here. The stores where we were allowed go were all top scale and price. On that note, Dan found a zoom lens for my camera that will allow me to zoom without changing lenses all the time, which I have been doing a lot this trips. It was way to much money but he bought it and said Happy Anniversary! I love it! After that we headed to a falls behind the hotel that was very pretty then went to the trailer and cooked spaghetti, homemade ... read more

Woke up to another pretty day, but the wind is strong here today and makes 55 degrees feel like 30. We went on a 2 ½ hour boat tour ride in the Waterton Lake this morning. They had an upper deck you could set on so we went up for the first half and nearly froze to death! The wind from the boat made it feel like 0 degrees…BRRR. On the boat ride we crossed the Canadian American border as this park is an international peace park with Glacier NP in Montana. There were two Homeland & Security agents from the US that were aboard and they stayed at the very remote small customs office on the US side. We could get off the boat and walk around the lake a little bit but if you ... read more