Puskas FamilyAlaska Vacation: 7/21/1991

John: After we woke up and had breakfast etc, we drove into the town of Banff. We did our laundry (bummer) and found a place to park to have lunch. We went to a free museum in town. Right in town Kari spotted a giant bull elk. It had a rack with over a six foot spread! I was able to get pretty close to take pictures of it. Guess it’s pretty common to see elk right in the town like that. We also went on the Sulfur Mountain Gondola... very neat ride which provided super scenery of the town of Banff surrounded by very majestic mountains and rivers. At the top of the mountain were lots of big horn sheep... some with little lambs. After all this, it was getting to be late in the afternoon, so we decided to hit the road... just outside of town we decided to check how much Canadian money we had left and found we had about $29.00 left... so I whipped the truck around and headed back into Banff. We found a money exchange place that does not charge a fee and stayed open till 10pm... (open today also which is Sunday). So I cashed another travelers check and down the road we went. We took a dirt road out of Canmore that eventually comes out on Rt. 40. On this road we saw a mother moose with a baby, some white tail deer, and a coyote. At the end of the dirt road (about 60-70 miles), we got to a blacktop road (which we thought was Rt. 40)... and took a right turn and found a nice campground called “Elkwood” in Alberta Recreation Area of Kananaskis. It was a beautiful spot. Turns out you needed the exact amount of money to put in the self registration envelope... and we didn’t have the exact amount. The camp host was gone... After supper I flagged a park ranger down and figured he’d have change... but he didn’t. He said if no one comes around before you leave in the morning not to worry about it. So being a guy that doesn’t worry about too much, went to bed. We drove 100 miles today.

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