Icefields Parkway Billed as the (Jeremy Clarkson voice) "Best driving road - in the world!" the Icefields Parkway runs about 232Km from Lake Louise to Jasper. We had been looking forward to this for some time but the omens were not good. As we left Lake Louise the sky was overcast and dark and rain was threatening. We wrapped up when we stopped for coffee at Pine Martin Lodge. By the time we reached Peyto Lake it was brighter and there were a few patches of blu...

Revelstoke On the way to Revelstoke we stocked up with more fruit from a roadside fruit stall. It was the last pick of the peaches so there would be no more after these were sold. Needless to say they were fabulous. We stopped at the O'Keefe Ranch for coffee and a look around. O'Keefe had been the biggest cattle rancher in BC and made his money selling beef to the railway workers. The museum was a collection of buildings from the ranch as it would have been aro...

Kelowna Kelowna is a very modern city beautifully set on the shores of Lake Okanagan. Our B&B was an enormous log cabin in a suburb overlooking the lake and the city in the distance. It was Ralf's dream home. Not so much Michele's as she referred to her husband as "that idiot German". We had made an error in not booking a winery tour - one where a minibus takes you to six or seven wineries and brings you back sozzled many hours later. However, it was Labou...

The road to Kelowna. This was our longest drive so far - about 5:30 hours. South east and then due east along the US border. Every time we came to a left turn into the USA we chanted "Don't turn left! Don't turn left!" until we were passed it and could breath a sigh of relief. See Bob and Sharon for what happens when you accidentally turn up at the US border. Canada is a big country and has several different climate zones - we passed through three of them on ou...

On the road again. We set off south into the Kootenay National Park area in a great loop that will eventually take us to Jasper. Our target for the first stop was Cranbrook. We travelled in blistering heat, stopping at Radium Springs for a picnic lunch overlooking the Columbia Valley. We had to seek shade at our coffee stop in Invermere as it was just too hot to sit in the sun. Fortunately, our B&B for the night had a hot tub where we soaked away the aches ...