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And this is one of the most beautiful photos EVER.

We road tripped western Canada for our honeymoon!

1958. They camped. They go so cold some nights they slept on stacked newspaper. It worked. Turns out if you are off the ground you don't freeze as much. Now of course people have mats when they camp.

Most nights in my husband‘s 1950s-60s vintage Chevy panel truck (with lime green shag carpeting), a couple nights in motels/hotels. Including Chateau Lake Louise! One bed for us, one for our dog!

It is the one by the Big Beehive above Lake Louise. No electricity. I showered in the waterfall every day. Wonderful food and lovely people.

divine!

and found Banff beautiful until you wanted accommodations (but we already knew that from the internet). We continued on to Revelstoke, hoping to get a glimpse of nearby Lake Louise. No soap, all roads to it were closed due to volume of visitors. In future we will avoid postcard tourist sites that feel like downtown busy sidewalks.
My lesson is that I will be seeing more of my own country 🇨🇦 before visiting overcrowded cliché destinations.

at that iconic view from the Chateau Lake Louise across the lake and into the Mountains in photos today and see the glacier on Mt. Victoria disappearing. With out glaciers there will be nothing to rub against the rocks making glacial flour, so some day, I don't know if it will be 50 years from now or sooner, that pastel turquoise colour of the lake will be gone as goes the glacial flour. The lakes needs those tiny bits of powdered rock suspended in the water to make the water pastel. There is even a difference in how the lake looks between Spring and late summer as the powdered glacial flour sinks to the bottom of the lake.

The moral of the story is to get there while you can still see it in all it's glory. It is really stunning. But I have heard about the crowds there too.