Driving South to Sweetgrass, Montana, USA

It's 9:00 am & the sky
is darkened with smoke
from forest fires.

Services for visitors to

Jasper National Park.

We are driving though very beautiful country with very few stops.  Our drive to Alaska started when we crossed the border into Canada on May 8 and as John Steinbeck mused on page 208 of Travels with Charley in Search of America,, "My journey started  before I left, and was over before I returned."  Our drive south though Alberta was focused soley on getting home, back to the United States.

We are watching
for wildlife.

 Photo taken at a scenic overlook.

I snapped a pic of a

Chipmunk.

We pass a fallen rock zone.

This scenic Skywalk
opened to the public
earlier this year.

The Columbia Icefield 

We stop for driving
instructions.

We must drive slowly for

the next 4 kilometers in

heavy smoke.

Eric drives past
hot spots that are
still smoking.

Is this an accident? 

All these vehicles are
stopped to look at
a Black Bear.

A hitchhiker headed

north.

Eric pulls to the side of
the road to take a picture
of the odometer....

50,000 miles





According to the Freightliner chassis specs, the engine is now broken in.

Eric turns onto Route 1 East.

After passing under several of

these bridges, Eric & I realized

they were built for animals to

cross over the highway.

It looks like a truck toolbox

is being used as this

 motorcycle's towed storage.

An amusement park rises
out of a farm field.

Calgary Park is open

for summer fun.

Our drive south takes us
through Calgary.

Past cows... 

The first sign with a US
destination.

Oil derricks spring up in

farm fields.

Next stop... the US
Border Inspection Station







We were welcomed back to the US by a Customs Officer.

Eric takes the ramp to

Sweetgrass, Montana.

We celebrate our return to

the US in the rest stop

in Sweetgrass.