Reflections from a train

[Runmonty]

I am enjoying your trip Michael - keep it coming

[asnow]

Wow, I'm really jealous. This is quite the adventure. I'm really enjoying your pictures and the stories that you are telling. Can't wait to read and see more.

[Michaelaw]

This image I didn't post while I spent the night at the Haven Inn in Mayerthorpe but it reminds me why I slept in a Motel. Had I been camping I just know the campsite would have been directly under that distant downpour

[Michaelaw]

Driving through "Jasper National Park" was interesting. Only an idiot would use cruise control in that neck of the woods because the posted speeds are only good for a few km's then they change. I thought I'd come across an accident at one point. Out on the road ahead was a total chaos of motor homes and SUV's all stopped half on or half off the road but none of them were damaged?. It was like they'd all gotten a call from some hypnotic agency who wanted them all dead. "You will stop your vehicle now! Don't worry about where you stop, just stop! Then you will grab your point and shoot, get out of the vehicle and head for the other side of the highway. Whatever you do don't watch for oncoming traffic, just get to the other side...Do it NOW!" It turns out that Big Horned Sheep are making the phone calls and they're all lazing around in the rocks laughing at the haphazard shopping mall parking lot they've created on the road. You get warnings a mile out along with a massive speed reduction for some guy in a hardhat standing with a shovel, yet for the sheep spectacle...Nothing! Same thing again ten miles further on where a Moose was standing on the side of the road having lunch. The battery warning light is coming on when I use anything electrical now so I'm changing the route cutting it short by about 1000km's which is a bummer. Anyway, next stop... The "Blue River Campground" As I've posted most of the other places I stopped at I guess I'll throw a pic up of Blue River

[Michaelaw]

What's good about being home again?....I can't afford to think like that I just want to re-stock, re-fuel and head back out there! I'm just gonna buy every lottery ticket they make until I win, tie the Focus to the back of a massive motor home and try to use all the fossil fuel on the planet however long that takes! It was an experience but more than that...A learning curve because now I understand the ropes, I'll probably do it again next year but this time, with a plan I was wondering the whole trip how it came to be that I'd reduced myself to fifty weeks of chopping meat, vegetables then simmering, adding spices only to get two weeks of eating soup I just have to break out of this cage!!! Two weeks on the road and apparently I wasn't missed by the cats, or if I was, they hide it well The entire trip (excluding the cost of tires) cost around $1800 bucks, not bad for a scouting mission. Thanks to you all for following along and I promise next year I'll do a massive video documentary of the whole deal...Mexico is just gonna have to wait