I travelled through some mountains

So I know it's been quite a while since I posted. I arrived safely into Vancouver where Julie met me. We went and had dessert at her boyfriend's house and then it was early to bed. The next night after Julie arrived home from work we took off on our long road trip to Calgary. To avoid Friday morning traffic we camped for the night in a town called Hope (such an uplifting name for a town) about 2 hours east. This time I had a sleeping mat and it was wonderful!!! We camped right near a lake that backed onto some mountains and were told by other campers that the raccoons were out in force so not to leave any food around. We didn't see or hear any, so they must have been scavenging somewhere else.

The drive through the Rockie Mountains was spectacular...both ways. We got an early start and soon saw a couple of hitchhikers so thought we would be the good samaritans and pick them up. The 2 girls, turned out to be 3 girls (one was sleeping in the bushes) who were French Canadians from Quebec, all uni students who were going north to do tree planting. Apparently this is a very popular summer job in Canada. You go north and re-plant what the logging industry has cut down...you get paid around 15c per tree and they told us they were working with a guy who was planting 4,000 a day. Sounded like back breaking work to me.  They proceeded to give us a VERY French history lesson on Canada and play us French revolution music...and then fall asleep with the controls so Julie and I had the pleasure of listening to it for 2 hours. We dropped them off at another town, deciding not to get the name of the musician off of them, and continued on our beautiful route to Calgary. The mountains are so rugged with so many oooohhhh, ahhhhhhhh moments along the way. Evergreen trees, glacial blue waters and wildflowers out in abundance.

We arrived in to Calgary around 10pm to a very warm welcome by Julie's parents. They live on 4 acres just outside of Calgary town. It's a beautiful house with an amazing view.