August 9th, 2024

We have definitely entered the “bread basket” of Canada. Nothing but miles and miles of fields and farms. 

To answer Dan’s question of going through Jasper and Banff to keep the Rockie Mountains in view. We had planned to drive south out of the Watson Lake area to Prince Rupert to make the drive a bit more interesting, however, there is currently a wild fire in Jasper that  has closed the road. I’ve heard the air quality is pretty bad to the west. We’ve talked to a few people who also changed their plans due to the fires.

We drove 250 miles today in 6 hours. We crossed over into Alberta which also crosses us over another time line and brings us one hour closer to the East coast! There’s only a two hour difference now.

The temps are in the 70s so fairly comfortable and the skies are a silty blue due to smoke. Dry camping is getting more difficult to do now that we are back in civilization (which will help preserve the fish mausoleum). It seems strange to see name brand stores and getting gas again with our Pilot/Flying J card. Before long we’ll be camping at KOAs again. But tonight we are back at Sagitawah campgrounds in Alberta Canada.