Hard Days Drive

I hate to disappoint everyone today but we didn't really do much. We got out of the Vancouver International Airport Travellodge that we were staying at and drove 800km up to Jasper, AB. I think this was our longest driving day yet. Normally, even the days that we drive 'all day' we usually stop somewhere that I can comment on, but today it was really just all driving.

We hit up timmy's for breakfast and then drove flat out for four hours until we stopped for gas, switched over and then drove for another four and a half hours until we got to Jasper. The only thing I can comment on is that we almost stayed at the Fairmont Jasper Lodge but due to the fact that we didn't decide we were going to stay there until today and then it was too late.

Tomorrow we're hiking in Jasper the park and then driving up to visit a friend of Geoff's, so we should have some more interesting pictures. The drive itself today was nice, but it was very similar to the drive from Golden, BC to Vancouver. Basically it went from city immediately to mountains and haven't stopped. According to Geoff about 70% of BC is apparently mountains, and based on what I've seen I'm inclined to believe him.

The motto of BC shouldn't be 'Beauty without diminishment' it would be 'We got all the F*&@'n Mountains'

Also Jasper had lots of Elk. Pretty much 3 elk for every person in Jasper. I hope to take more pictures of them tomorrow on the hike. For now, you'll have to make due with the speedy Gonzalez version I snapped when we drove past a herd of them on the highway.

If you look really close, I think you can find the one that's on the quarter.

Jasper Hiking Tomorrow!