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Showing posts with label great american road trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great american road trip. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Thursday, July 19, 2007
My dilemma
WEDNESDAY July 18th, 2007
This 21st century vacation is interesting. Keeping gameboys, PCs, cellphones, portable DVDs, and camera batteries charged is a challenge. Just an observation. Hope all is well out there. Read my first newspaper since our flight out here July 5th (today on the train). Same screwed up world -- not missing anything.
This 21st century vacation is interesting. Keeping gameboys, PCs, cellphones, portable DVDs, and camera batteries charged is a challenge. Just an observation. Hope all is well out there. Read my first newspaper since our flight out here July 5th (today on the train). Same screwed up world -- not missing anything.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Muncho Lake
We all did a dip in Muncho lake - for however brief it was, we did get in this frigid glacial runoff lake....
THE COLUMBIA ICEFIELD
SATURDAY July 7th, 2007
We drive from Lake Louise to Jasper with the occassional stop to enjoy the sites. We spy some mountain goats along the road and take a ride on the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield. Our ride is a large wheeled buggy that traverses some rugged territory including a 32 degree incline to get on the glacier. We were able to get out on the glacier for a while in an area that the ice is about 1,000 feet thick. While on the buggy, we hear “you guys are from Georgia!” It was a woman who saw us in a small restaurant in town last week that we have never met before – VERY small world. This icefield is right on the continental divide, and as we leave, we notice the river along the side of the road that we have followed for 75 miles, is now running in the other direction (west). The water on this side of the continental divide is headed for the Pacific Ocean. We also realize we are as far north as we have ever been – a record we will break each and every day for a week now.
We drive from Lake Louise to Jasper with the occassional stop to enjoy the sites. We spy some mountain goats along the road and take a ride on the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield. Our ride is a large wheeled buggy that traverses some rugged territory including a 32 degree incline to get on the glacier. We were able to get out on the glacier for a while in an area that the ice is about 1,000 feet thick. While on the buggy, we hear “you guys are from Georgia!” It was a woman who saw us in a small restaurant in town last week that we have never met before – VERY small world. This icefield is right on the continental divide, and as we leave, we notice the river along the side of the road that we have followed for 75 miles, is now running in the other direction (west). The water on this side of the continental divide is headed for the Pacific Ocean. We also realize we are as far north as we have ever been – a record we will break each and every day for a week now.
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