Day 5 Shelby, MT to Calgary, AB

Day 5 was all about getting across the border in Canada.  It was no problem at all.  There was a line when we got there.  You never get out of your vehicle.  We handed the guy at the booth our  Passports and then he stared asking questions like, How long will we be in Canada?  How much alcohol and tobacco products do we have?  Do we have any firearms or handguns?  Then he went off in another direction and asked Is the camper new?  What kind of hitch is that?  I have never seen one like that.  As he asked these last question, he watched us real close.  I think was just testing us to see if we would start acting nervous or strange.  I lucked out.  He didn't notice I was strange.  He was satisfied, gave us back our passports and told us to have a good day.  The wait and questioning took 25 min.

When we saw the Welcome to Alberta sign, we had to stop and take tourist pictures.  We saw a Dairy Queen and I ran two people off the road, but we made it into the parking lot (just kidding).  We ate lunch in the 5th Wheel, and then went into DQ and got each of us a Blizzard.

We got to Calgary around 3:30 on a Friday afternoon, and the traffic was horrendous.  We made up our own route to skirt along the SW side of town in order to miss downtown.  Calgary is a very large city.  Population 1,120,225.  That's over twice as big as Des Moines and all of it's suburbs combined.  It felt like all million people were headed home when we were there.

We are now parked in SpringHill RV Park.  It is about 20 miles NW of Calgary.  We will be here for the next three nights.  Tomorrow we will go to the airport in Calgary and pick up Cathy who arrives at 1:30 PM.  We will look around Calgary  and see the sights.  Cathy will get to spend her first night in the new 5th Wheel.

The Day 7 we are driving just the truck, West to the Canadian Rockys.  We will be going to Banff and Lake Louise.  Cathy wants to ride a horse.  That will make great pictures.  Then on Day 8 we will hook up the 5th Wheel and keep heading north.

Click here to see Day 5 route and pictures.