Canada!

Bonnie here:

   I'm not surprised that Yukon's mottos is "Bigger than Life." It is. You can drive for miles and miles in this beautiful place and never see a person. Now that winter is fast approaching, the mountains are snow capped and even more impressive than they were when we drove through on our way up to Alaska. The Yukon is nature's cathedral. I imagine that anyone who knows how social I can be might be surprised that this is one of my favorite places, but there you have it. I love it.
     If the Yukon is nature's cathedral, than British Columbia is her palace. In the northern Rockies you never know when bear, caribou, stone sheep, wood bison or goats might join you on the road. It's thrilling. Each turn with the majestic mountains, lakes, streams and rivers is a post card shot. I kid about taking 85 pictures a day just so I can show my family when we get home. I keep saying, "They won't believe this!" I'm crazy about British Columbia, too. ( Dan Edward, guess what -- Chris Hadfield is playing in Dawson Creek, British Columbia!)
    Alberta is like the old West. When we were out to dinner the other night, I kept expecting that a modern day Clint Eastwood would saunter in to the bar. I think Steve mentioned how the bar stools are saddles. You've got to love that. On another occasion, I and two other ladies were the only women in the the very nice, respectable restaurant. Like the old West, a lot of guys are here working. Now it is with Spectra Energy. In this part of Alberta ( we aren't down in Banff and Lake Louise on the way home) it's dusty and dry. Homes don't have flowers in their yards. We are driving by huge farms, oil businesses. No lakes, no mountains. Horses, cattle, farms, equipment, Dollar Tree. It's a very different world.
     Now we are in Saskatchewan. We are murdering lots of bugs because it's in the 70s here. No sparkling sky today because of fires up in British Columbia. Seems strange to see cars and trucks on the road!