Majestic Alberta (Part 3)
Day 7 Alot of driving today. We checked out of our hotel in Banff around 7am and bolted down to the Columbia icefields about three hours away. WY was nice enough to get up at 5 to pack healthy breakfast and snacks for the crew. We stopped by for coffee at Tim's and that place too forever. We barely made our 10:15 appointment. The whole crew was excited. This was my wife's most exciting part of the whole trip - to set foot on a glacier. We were bused to the base of the glacier where we boarded these huge diesel buses with ginormous wheels (we were told they are getting converted to hydrogen). These monster trucks are design for climbing steep glaciers. Scientists in the south pole also uses them. Naturally, LL was excited about them. Come to think of it, why didn't any of us bring boots and snow pants? Anyway, walking and seeing a glacier is awe inspiring. We hear about glacier melting all the time. To see in person is a completely different ordeal. It puts you in the drive...