Gael Glen Farm On The Road

Today was a rest and recharge day. It also happened to be Seamus’ favourite day of the trip so far. We started by NOT getting up early - lol. We slept in until 8 am. After Ian cooked eggs, which is Seamus’ favourite breakfast, we headed to Banff’s Upper Hot Springs. We arrived right in time for opening and took our time having a long healing soak in the rejuvenating hot sprin...

It was another early morning for Team Adventure (aka the Kehoe MacLeod family), though some  of us were more on board with getting up early again this morning than others - it is still pretty chilly here at 5:00 am. We were up and on the trail by 6:00 am. We selected the extremely popular Johnston Canyon trail this morning and wanted to beat the crowds - which we did. Th...

Our day started off with our closest bear sighting yet - right in the campground! The little black bear looked so cute and cuddly. Not to worry, we were safe in the truck when we saw him on the way to catch our Parks Canada Shuttle to Lake Moraine.

Dinosaurs galore was the theme of the day. But before we got to those, we stopped to check out the Drumheller badlands and hoodoos. Rain seems to be coupled with badlands on this trip and today Alistair and I got foiled by the slimy bentonite clay and both got an unanticipated mud bath.

We are back in Canada! For a while anyway…

It was still sprinkling rain when we woke up this morning. It has been raining day and night for three days straight! Regardless, we got up and ate breakfast. Liam tried out his birthday gift - a travel blender. We then packed up and headed over to pick up our rental e-bikes for our trip on the Going to the Sun Road, reschedule...