We headed out from Glacier early Monday morning. Snow is expected, and we want to get far down the road before it hits…

Soon we were at the border… All went well, with little waiting.

Alberta is very much an open, rangeland area…

We arrived in Drumheller, AB. This is a town with a history of cattle, mining, and Dinosaurs…

Many of the caravaners had already arrived. The Caravan actually starts tomorrow, so we are just one day early.

We started off on the right foot by having a Happy Hour with all the Airstreamers.

We returned to the Villa…

Tuesday, June 18, is the official first day of the caravan. We received our “Travel Guide”, a 3-ring binder full of information about everything we will be doing. We will see a dinosaur museum, an historic ranch (one of the country’s largest in its heyday), a “Buffalo Jump”, a hot springs resort, Lake Louise, Kootenay Plains, Jasper National Park, Banff National Park, and the Calgary Stampede. (More on the Stampede later…)

The last of the caravaners arrived this day.

We spent the day greeting others, walking along the adjacent river, and getting ready for our Welcome Meeting this evening.

On Wednesday, June 19, we drove to the local dinosaur museum. We toured the museum until all the lights went out… Oops!

Since we had planned to eat lunch in the museum cafe, we instead drove back to the Airstreams and had lunch on our own. Then we drove back to the museum and gathered for our guided walk to see the “Badlands”

They look pretty bad to me…

The Badlands were formed by the giant inland sea freezing during the ice age. As the ice melted, glaciers scraped all the loose sediment away leaving these hills and valleys. Since the dinosaurs also died out during this period, these hills are full of dinosaur bones…

It was very interesting. We could see “hoodoos” forming, and we could see dinosaur bones in the sandstone beneath our feet…

That evening we had a dinner at a local landmark, the Last Chance Saloon.

Food was good and all the Airstreamers appeared to enjoy themselves.

And an enjoyable time was had by all..