Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I thought I should add some pictures so that you don’t lose interest in my boring dialogue.


On the right is a picture of Connie with Lake Louise in the background. On the left is Moraine Lake, not far from Lake Louise.

Tuesday started out raining and it’s cloudy and cool. In Banff the temperature is 7 C. That’s unseasonably cool.

The news today in Alberta was that a large oil refinery near Edmonton is shut down and that is causing shortages and some outages of fuel in many areas of Alberta. We were told that if we go to Jasper NP, which is where we are headed tomorrow, there will be no/short fuel. Before we left home I put in an auxiliary fuel tank that holds an extra 60 gallons. That now seems to have been a good idea. I have two full tanks and just calculated that I now have a range of 1,200 Km. We should be able to get to Jasper and back into the US.

Because of the fuel shortage my brother, his wife, and the other two fellow travelers decided to leave a day early in hopes of getting out of Canada and maybe beat the rush. We are now on our own until we get back to Cedar Falls around the 13th.