Fall Travels to the West

It's fall and time to do some more traveling, volunteering and blogging about it. Our travels west through Saskatchewan and into Alberta were better than we had anticipated. Sunshine and very little wind makes for easier driving.

Grenfell SK campground with bright yellow fall foliage.

Our second day's night stop  was at Redcliff AB. We soon became aware of this communities many greenhouses and saw a sign that said "The Greenhouse Capital of the Prairies". They supply Canadians with cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant and more. We were surprised to see many large greenhouses in the northwest corner of town. Check out Google maps satellite image.

Rows and rows of greenhouses

Our third day we parked our RV in Carstairs AB and visited relatives and then moved to another campground in Cochrane AB to be closer to Calgary where we had lunch, coffee and supper with various families.

Bow Rivers Edge Campground in Cochrane AB

The clouds prevented us from seeing the mountain tops. Note the hoar frost on the trees part way down.

With rain and high winds moving in Friday night and Saturday, we decided to wait with our travels till Sunday morning. Sunday roads were good, but we could see the snow in the bushes from the previous days snowfall in the Banff area. Our travels through the Rockies should have been dramatic   with the mountains, but with low clouds we saw very little of this rugged country. By the time skies cleared we were in the touristy areas of the Okanagan.

Road work in the Rockies

After a long days drive we arrived in Oliver by 5:30 p.m. (BC time).

This will be home for the next month.
Work begins Monday morning. Will tell you more about that next time.