After Jasper, we turned south, along the eastern side of the Rockies, down to Banff.

Once again, along the way, we saw some stunning scenery.

Banff, as you would expect from its reputation, is a nice place, but was packed with tourists and it is where, we had only the fourth day of rain, since we started the trip back in April.

But it didn’t last long, before long the sun was back out and it was on with the trip.

The RV park we stopped on, which was a National Parks one called, Tunnel Mountain II, had an unusual way of arranging the RV’s, putting them on both sides of the park roads, which worked quite well.

Right, off we went to have some adventures, starting off with some very hairy, scary, White-Water rafting, as you can see in the photo below.

Still we survived and didn’t get too wet!!

We couldn’t come to this neck of the woods (UK term for ‘vicinity’), without visiting the world famous, Lake Louise, which features on many of the calendars from Canada, so off we went.

The route we took, was a back road called the Bow River’s Parkway.

It is a truly stunning location (look at the sun reflecting on the lake in the photo above), but once again, packed out with tourists and although we intended hiring a canoe and going out onto the lake, the queue (Line in US speak), was massive and we probably wouldn’t have managed to hire one for several hours, so we abandoned that idea and went off exploring the area instead.

After a couple of days exploring in and around Banff, we set of South East to visit Calgary, home to the Calgary Stampede, probably the most famous Rodeo in the world.

Eventually, we pulled onto the Bow River Campground and caught the train into Calgary, 20 minutes away.

Fortunately, we had managed to book tickets and an RV site near it, several months ago, otherwise we probably wouldn’t have been able to see the main attractions.

As we walked around, we felt so underdressed because we didn’t have a cowboy hat on, that we just had to buy one – how do we look?

Well, where do we start with this Rodeo, we have literally thousands of pictures, but we won’t bore you with them all, just show you a few hundred!

Stop panicking, we were just joking about posting hundreds of photos!!

The last three photos are of the evening show, but what about the skill of the tightrope walker in the evening show?, isn’t he amazing?

The only downside, were the funny looks we kept getting as we shouted ‘YeeHaa, Yeehaa’, we didn’t want to keep shouting it, but we just couldn’t help ourselves!

The day after the Rodeo, we went to Calgary’s Heritage Park, where they have collected and saved, a number of historic building and artifacts, including a very interesting and unusual collection of Petrol (gas) dispensers and quite a few very neat vintage cars.

Wow, its 5 O’clock -Talk again soon, as it’s time for a Cup of Tea (ha ha).