Alberta
Wapiti Campground, Jasper National Park
Got up and went for a short run at the campground and then headed to Vernon. It was a very long, slow drive. Stopped at Safeway where I tried to get a grocery cart. But they were all mysteriously connected together with a locking mechanism. When I asked about it, the lady said that I’d have to put in a quarter to get a cart released and that I would get my quarter back when I returned the cart. It is an incentive program, or so she said. Next up, we tried to put the Safeway card into the atm slot. Oh no, this is not how it works here in BC. It seems that we in the US have insecure ATM cards (no “chips”); you cannot put the Safeway card in the bank card reader machine here where it is so secure.
Got out of Safeway and headed to Planet Bee for a bit of info on honey, bees, and mead. Had a tasting session and bought a bottle. Fun times. Once again, off on a slow ride north. After much driving, a couple of stops for gas and a cache along the way – and finding out that all of the gas stations we stopped at had A & Ws and free wireless – we made it to Jasper National Park! Yahoo! Great campground – they assign you a site – and the nice young attendant gave us a great site after we chatted her up a bit. She did confess to giving crumby sites to cranky campers. ☺ All in all, it was a long, but beautiful drive!
