On Saturday after two nights in Winnipeg, I boarded the train again at noon to continue my trip west. In just about 24 hours we went from farmland to prairie grasslands to the Rocky Mountains, and sunset over the prairie was beautiful. On the way up into the Rockies we got a little surprise from the weather, snow!
When I was first planning the trip I wondered if I should get off the train a couple more times and visit the cities of Saskatoon and Edmonton. But between you and me, after looking at them both as we passed through in the night, I'm glad I didn't.
Jasper isn't a big town but it's in the middle of a huge national park that straddles the continental divide for hundreds of miles south to the Montana border. In addition to winter skiing, there are glaciers, waterfalls, mountain lakes and major wildlife to be seen. But the forecast is for snow overnight, so I'll be peeking out my window early in the morning.
I'm finished with my train riding for now. Tomorrow I take a sightseeing tour from Jasper down the Icefields Parkway 100 miles south to Banff, another ski resort. I'll spend a night or two there hoping to get a clear night sky to look at before I leave for Vancouver, my last stop.
Have a good week all ............
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