Banff to Drumheller

We spent the morning roaming around Banff. It's location with the mountains and Bow river is stunning. The town keeps the place immaculate as do the home owners. It draws folks from around the world and lots of money flows in to keep it attractive. The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel is a landmark and has almost 800 rooms.

We departed Banff and headed over to Calgary, the geography changes from mountains to plains. Calgary is a big city and as we got closer the traffic got congested and we decided we didn't want to fight it, so headed north east and ended up in Drumheller, why in the hell did we do that. The Canadian government has information offices scattered about the country designated by a ? mark, they are great, any thing you want to know about attractions, accommodations, etc, they can answer. You come away with maps, brochures, books and other stuff. Anyway, a lady at one office recommend Drumheller as the dinosaur capital of Canada. As we came in to town there are dinosaurs on every corner doing something, one was on a motorcycle. The one shown below at the Drumheller ? is reputed to be the largest one in the world. Another claim to fame for Drumheller is that Clint Eastwood made the movie Unforgiven in the area. So here we are camped out for the night in beautiful downtown Drumheller, not really, debating if we should visit the Royal Tyrrell Dinosaur museum tomorrow?


Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. How would you like to raft down this white water, a good 15 feet drop just behind the center fir trees


There's that ? shown on the side of the info office. Big dude isn't he.