Banff- July 9

We got in the Jeep this morning to start our exploring, backed up and heard a clicking sound. Looks like the rear passenger side brake caliper decided to give out somewhere in the 1300 miles that we were dragging it up here. We're waiting to get it into a garage and exploring the little town of Lake Louise. The visitor's center has wi-fi, so I'm working on the blog. I'm glad to know that I'll be able to continue posting while we're up here. It takes a long time for the pictures to load so it's not a lot of fun to do several days at a time!
Hopefully we'll be back in commission by this afternoon.

Update, Saturday evening.

Well, I guess I spoke too soon about wanting to sightsee with just the Jeep. The calipers are fine, it’s the axle seal that’s out. And there is no way to get parts until Monday, maybe.

So to make the best of the situation, we took the motorhome exploring this afternoon. We were able to find a place to park it in all the places where we were wanting to stop (but we were purposely trying to stay away from the heaviest crowds).

 The lakes are all a beautiful turquoise color that I can’t seem to capture on my camera. We saw several glaciers and the mountains are majestic.

It started raining pretty good and we couldn’t decide whether to go on hoping it would quit or turn back. We pulled into a rest area to see if we could just wait it out. David read a book and I took a nap. That scenario is so backwards that I’m a little concerned that the world as we know it may be coming to an end…   After about an hour, we decided to head back to camp and try again in the morning. We hope to explore the Icefields Parkway as far towards Jasper as we can get, if the weather holds. There is a glass walkway over one of the glaciers that I’m excited about trying-David is saying “no way” but, we’ll see.

Crowfoot Glacier

Peyto Lake

And then there were the flowers.