June 5, 2019
Up early, and a quick breakfast and we were heading out. We said goodbye to Piet and Judy and thanked them for being such great hosts.
We had planned our trip to take secondary roads and continued across central Alberta through farmlands and pastures to Innisfail, Alberta. We had phoned ahead to have coffee with our nephew Greg, brother John’s son, who lives there with his wife Terra and daughter, Brielle. We met at Tim Horton’s and had an enjoyable visit. It was camp day at Tim Horton’s so we also got a visit from a local Mountie in the picture!
Before we drove out of Innisfail, we spotted a monument of a fighter jet, a CF104, the plane that Debbie’s father flew in the Canadain Military before he retired. We had to stop and take a photo of it.
Onwards and westward! We are technically supposed to be heading eastward, but had decided to travel through to Jasper so that we could head eastward from there. The Alberta wildfires had changed our itinerary as the fires had now cut off our destination to Wood Buffalo National Park. We decided to continue east from Jasper to Edmonton and then to Cold Lake, Debbie’s early childhood home.
As we gassed the vehicle in Spruce View, we noted that the price of gas was the cheapest so far on our trip at $1.11 per liter. We decided that Rocky Mountain House was to be our destination for today.
We arrived in Rocky Mountain House and after visiting the visitor’s centre, we settled for the Crimson Lake Provincial Park for our campsite.
Rocky Mountain House was preparing for a busy weekend as the annual stampede as getting started. The campground was quiet however, was expected to be full by the weekend.
We secured our campsite for the evening. We were to explore this area, do some kayaking and see what Rocky Mountain House has to offer.
Quilting in a Kayak 