Currently our favorite:

Banff, Alberta, Canada

After a day in Ft Steele having a maintenance day: laundry and cleaning we made our way through the mountains to Banff. We stayed in Tunnel Mountain Trailer Court. It has something like 600 plus spots. It was very nice and we would do that again, in fact we will in September. We had 30 amp service and the satellite worked, no WiFi.

The easy drive into town was delightful. There was a trail one could walk in 4 miles. There was also a free shuttle. We enjoyed Banff Ave Brewing Co.. The beer was cold and the WiFi worked well.

The first morning we drove to Lake Louise and took an almost 8 mile hike to the Lake Agnes Tea House and Large Beehive. Wowza this hike went straight up a mountain. The views were epic. We loved it.

In the pic below you can make out the Fairmont Chateau on Lake Louise.

 The second day we were so sore from the first hike we said “let’s take a flat hike”. We tried going to Lake Moraine but the parking was full so we went back to Lake Louise at 8am. We took another short hike straight up a mountain to a lookout.
That is the Fairmont Chateau.

 There is a trail that is flat alongside the lake so we headed in that direction. When we got to the end the trail went slightly uphill and around a corner, we said “what the heck, let’s go see where it goes”.

We kept doing/saying that and pretty soon we walked 5 miles straight up a mountain. The trail went through forests, large patches of snow, up rocky gravel paths and past beautiful wild flowers.

We made it to the Tea House and had a lovely snack of biscuits and hot chocolate.

 

I blocked out a person who got in this pic.The young people who work at this tea house hike up once a week and stay for 5 nights. Then they go back down the mountain for 2 nights. This goes on all summer.

Les put the drone up in the Tunnel Mountain RV Park

Flathead Lake Montana and crossing the Canadian border:

June 23 was a 340 mile driving day. We landed in Bigfork, Montana. Flathead Lake is beautiful and in some areas so large you can’t really see the other side. We stayed in Outback Mountain RV Park, a very tight treed park. We fit fine but the satellite couldn’t get a signal.

The tiered park was pretty but too tight and not our favorite.

I took this pic of the cute trailer that parked next to us.

Crossing the border went amazingly well. They asked the usual questions: how many days will you be in Canada, do you have guns, when you left Texas did you have a gun, how much alcohol do you have, what is there in Alaska for you? It took all of 3 minutes.

In Ft Steele we stayed in a neat park with its own gas station which was very handy for us.

There were some horses in fields nearby and emu.
 

Yellowstone National Park

June 21

We stayed in our favorite RV park called Yellowstone’s Edge. We had to drive the RV thru Yellowstone park from the south to the north. Yikes!! Some of the roads had a straight drop off on my side of the coach. I admit I closed my eyes a few times. Our speed was slow but it helped looking out for wildlife.

This was just a fun picture with snow at one of the higher passes on the road.

As always, Les did a terrific job getting us safely through the park.

We saw lots of bison a few deer and elk. The scenery is so fabulous.

I was very eager to see The Grand Prismatic Spring this visit. We took a good hike that day out to the middle of what felt like nowhere after stopping to get this good picture of the spring.

This is the honorary mention of people who stopped on the road to get a picture of wildlife. One sad man had what looked like his 4 year old child a few yard from a resting bison.

Les put the drone up.