Got up early - made a quick coffee and took to the road pj's and all. Drove 100 miles along the interstate before stopping at a rest area - got dressed and had breakfast at a picnic table in the rest area...oh the joys of travelling in an RV. Continued along the highway to Minneapolis admiring all the lakes along the highway. Minnesota is known as the state with 10,000 lakes and it is easy to see why. They are everywhere - all shapes and sizes - some folks lucky enough to have built their homes right alongside the lakes. Forgot to mention - we have seen quite a bit of road kill from Montana to Minnesota - mostly deer, coyote and skunks. This section of driving today has mostly been through corn farming territory. Driving ... read more

After leaving Dickinson our first detour of the day was "The Enchanted Highway", a 32 mile stretch of highway starting at Interstate 94. This highway features some of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures. In fact, the sculpture "Geese in Flight", is currently listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as the Largest Scrap Metal Sculpture in the entire world. Currently, the Enchanted Highway consists of 6 extremely large metal sculptures depicting geese, deer, pheasants, grasshoppers, Teddy Roosevelt, and even a complete Tin Family. The artist responsible for this awesome creation, Regent native Gary Greff, plans on adding even more giant sculptures to the highway in the upcoming years. The sculptures finish in the small town of Regent - where there's not a lot to see but we got some good photos of the place. ... read more

Left Brook 9.30am for our drive to Moose Jaw - Saskatchewan. There is not a lot to blog about this drive except to say it is a long drive on an open, flat highway with plain-lands everywhere you look. The sea of grains along the highway is sometimes interrupted by some dairy cattle or an oil drill but apart from that it is uneventful. The trans Canada highway through Saskatchewan is in good condition and used by big rigs as well as everyday vehicles. The Canada Pacific also follows this highway and we saw numerous freight trains carrying many carriages along on their journeys. The province of Saskatchewan is known as the "Land of the Living Skies". Most people use Saskatchewan as a way of getting to someplace else - which is exactly what we were ... read more

Amazingly, stunning and beautiful day here in Banff. Yes it is cold but looking out the window of the RV we just couldn't wait to explore this majestic looking place. The town of Banff is quite large and gets extremely busy with large amounts of tour buses stopping here each day for visitors to purchase souvenirs and explore the township. Banff is Canada's highest town sitting at 1,384m above sea level. I visited a washroom (as the Canadians called them - Australians call them toilets and Americans call them bathrooms) and the atmosphere in here was quite unique. There was classical music playing in the background! Certainly made me want to stay a little longer! First adventure of the day was a drive up to Sulphur Mountain for the Gondola ride up to the summit. It ... read more

Ready to hit the road at 7.30am after having a quick look at Sunwapta Falls. Like all the other falls we have seen over the past few days it was impressive. Today we are driving the Icefield Parkway from Jasper to Lake Louise. It is a stretch of road almost 200km long - but don't expect to be able to drive it in a few hours. The drive is through some pretty spectacular sights and there are photos and hikes to be taken around every corner! The Icefields Parkway (highway 93) traverses high elevation (2,088m) mountain terrain. During the winter months snow chains are required for driving this road. In this blog today I will list the places of interest we stopped along the journey to our destination of Lake Louise: View point to photographs three ... read more