Saturday, August 2 – Revelstoke to Calgary

We have had great sunny and warm weather ever since we left home until today. This morning was overcast with mid-level cloud.  It thinned out during the day, although we got one little rain shower, and we eventually got some sunny breaks.

We got away just after 9 and reached the western outskirts of Calgary at 2:30 Calgary time (one hour later than BC). We did not have enough gas to make it to Alberta, so we had to pick up some of that extra special, premium priced BC gas in Golden. In Calgary we stopped at a couple of liquor stores to fill Carla’s shopping list. Then we went to the east end Costco near our hotel to see if they had the Kirkland beer sampler and a gas station, but struck out on both counts. We reached the hotel at 4 and found another Costco on the Internet that had beer and gas, but, with the Rider game starting at 5, we felt that we did not have time. They close at 6 and won’t be open tomorrow when we leave, so, maybe another time.

Trail mix and Cheezies for supper. Mmmmmmm…!

I have noticed that traffic moves much better than it did in the old days. I attribute it to two things: first, there are way more passing lanes and four-lane sections, and second, almost all the camper trailers are being pulled by powerful pickup trucks rather than cars, as in the past.

We noticed a lot of long weekend traffic again today, this time heading east to west. The road heading west was often crowded and there was a long line-up at the entrance to Banff National Park. Yesterday there was a line-up of at least two or three miles of traffic crawling into Sicamous.