Day 24- To Calgary, AL

Last night neighbors, with kids, pulled in to the site next to ours. I’d almost forgotten the sound of children laughing, playing and worst of all, crying. Anyway, the new neighbor pulled into his site facing the opposite of everyone else in the loop and it appeared where he parked, it would make it very difficult for us to get out this morning. Also last night, we had more generator trouble. Carl removed the spark plug to find it was pretty thick with carbon. He cleaned it, put it back in and things ran smoothly after that. Maybe that was the trouble the other day as well. This morning, we had trouble getting out of our space but it wasn’t the neighbor’s fault. There was a tree in our way. We had to come at the hitch from a different angle, move the camper back about a foot and a half, unhook and then back in to the hitch straight on. After that, the camper followed the truck nice as could be. We’re learning how to put things just where we want them. Once we dumped our tanks and topped off the fresh water, we left the park, crossed into Canada at Roosville and headed towards Crows Nest Pass, across the Continental Divide once more. We traveled for a short time in British Columbia but soon found ourselves in Alberta. The roads were pretty good but the wind was terrible. We saw wonderful rolling hills, lots of grazing animals and hay being baled everywhere. Signs warned us of big horn sheep and elk crossings but hard as I might look, I didn’t see any of them standing at those signs. We had lunch at Crows Nest Lake and then continued on our way. We passed by historical places marked by signs reading “Frank Slide, the site of the deadliest landslide in North America” , Hillcrest Mine Disaster Cemetery and The Burmis Tree. Why these places are important to Canadian history, I’ll have to find out. After arriving in Calgary, we parked the camper and went into Wal-Mart to “pay our campground fee”. Now, I know they don’t charge but after spending $95.00 Canadian dollars worth or groceries and I can’t even tell how many pounds of bananas I got because they were sold in kilograms, I was too tired to make the slow cooker beef stew for tomorrow night’s supper. But, hey, they had great looking steaks on sale ( we think ) so we’ll have those. We’re in the same shopping center as Denny’s so guess where we’re going to have breakfast in the morning? Tonight is our last night in Wal-Mart for a while. From here on, it’s pulling off the road in turn outs for the next week until we get to Fairbanks.