Calgary West Campground Calgary, Alberta

Mileage:  41,161

Good morning!

Goodbye Montana!

It required a lot of preparation to cross the border into Canada.  Our AT&T service on my phone and Tim’s ipad do not include service in Canada.  Tim’s Verizon service does.  We needed to put devices in airplane mode to avoid fees.  It will be good for me to be unplugged for awhile!  We had gotten some Canadian money before we left home and so we had some cash.  We had our passports.  We stocked up on our supplies and our groceries.  We had crossed into Canada on another trip and the border patrol boarded our RV and took away some of our produce.  An online search was not helpful.  It basically stated that depending on what concerns there might be at the time of your crossing…they could confiscate whatever they wanted including meats, fish, seafood and dairy products!  Tim had read horror stories of crossings that took several hours.  So we were on our way early and a little uptight.

We crossed into Canada at Coutts, Alberta.  There was relatively little traffic and trucks were directed to a separate inspection area.  There was one camper in front of us.  The guard asked us a bunch of very basic questions, looked at our identification and passports and within a few minutes we were on our way!

The welcome center in Alberta has this statue out front.

It is an Albertosaurus, the grandfather of the Trex.

We stopped in Nanton for sandwiches and a walk around the town.

We drove all the way north of Calgary and toward Banff to reach Calgary West Campground.  It overlooks Calgary.

We never get tired of looking at the scenery but sometimes we get tired of driving and riding.

We were drinking sangria at 3:30 this afternoon.