Banff National Park

So I started driving westbound again after staying at my Aunt and Uncles for a bit. I made a pit stop at Banff national park. Now I understand why everybody says I have to stop there at least once in my life. The mountains were amazing!

I primarily focused on checking out Lake Louise and Moraine Lake. Scheduling restrictions did not allow me to visit any more than those for the day. I will have to make it back one day!

I drove almost 9 hours today. Luckily I didn’t have to drive to the two lakes from the Banff central info office. I decided to take their shuttle bus instead, to allow me to rest a bit. Unfortunately, that backfired. Their fleet of crappy school buses that they used had awful shocks and suspensions. That, combined with my fatigued state gave me a nasty headache for much of the later half of the trip. I rushed to grab an extra large cup of Tim’s, and things cleared up for a bit afterwards. Sadly, near the end of the drive two hours before we arrived at our destination for the night, it rained, again making the drive much more difficult than it should have. I should be arriving at my brothers house sometime by tomorrow evening.

Lake Louise. It was so damn busy there!
Moraine Lake. The old Canadian 20 dollar bill had an illustration of these scene. Seeing it in real life was something else…
At a rest stop just after the BC border, all alone.

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