On the Road Again

Tue morning comes with the cloudiest skies to date. Rain is the forecast of the day, in fact of the week. We are meeting another couple that has offered to ride with us and then take us back to their home for the night. We meet in Cochrane just west of Calgary and decide the weather will not deter our choice of roads and west we head for Banff, Lake Louise and the Icefields Parkway.





Riding 1A instead of 1 from Banff we find a few of the local residents being lazy on this hazy day.





Yes, that is a black bear showing his best side to Deb. We continued up the parkway to highway 11 east toward Rockie Mountain House. As we exited the parkway our attention was being paid to the pass check stand and when I glanced to my right I had a good sized black bear about 25 ft from the side of the motorcycle. He was as startled as we and turned quickly and headed for the woods. Too fast for Deb to get a photo since the camera was in her pocket due to the weather. Heading east we had numerous opportunities to view up close deer and big horn sheep. Our friends then took us to their 160 acre ranch where they served up a wonderful meal that included buffalo meat. Very good and tender. Tomorrow we will retrace some steps and continue north to Jasper and beyond.