{"id":675,"date":"2011-08-12T22:44:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T05:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-05-24T23:02:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T06:02:48","slug":"day-2-to-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: to Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Road trip log for 2011\/08\/10.<\/p>\n

Stayed at the Three Valley Lake Chateau last night, for the first time.\u00a0 It’s not bad.\u00a0 I got a fourth-floor room with a view of the lake.\u00a0 Here’s a panorama of the view from my balcony:<\/p>\n

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The room was small but adequate.\u00a0 It was pretty hot; I could get a nice breeze going through by leaving both doors open, but obviously that couldn’t go on all night – I also had to close the balcony door because there was too much noise from the highway otherwise.\u00a0 Fortunately the room included a floor fan so I left that running all night.<\/p>\n

Could have slept better but I felt OK during the day.<\/p>\n

There’s a “Ghost Town” tourist trap attached to the resort that I had always wondered about in passing.\u00a0 Decided to have a look this morning since it was half price for guests.\u00a0 It’s actually worthwhile – I only spent an hour photographing stuff quickly, but I could spend a whole afternoon there.\u00a0 It’s basically an enormous antique collection, including stuff up to train cars, amassed by the founders of the resort.\u00a0 It covers 4 acres and includes 14 buildings.<\/p>\n

Stopped at Revelstoke for breakfast, but my favourite breakfast place, Main Street Cafe<\/a>, was closed today.\u00a0 Had to settle for a crappy sandwich from Timmy’s.<\/p>\n

Stopped for a walk at the Giant Cedars boardwalk, and was shocked to discover that my memories of it are in error – the Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island is actually much more impressive.<\/p>\n

Stopped for lunch at the Natural Bridge park near Field – basically a waterfall that flows under a rock bridge – nothing spectacular but a popular curiosity.<\/p>\n

Lots of road construction between Golden and Banff – I’m pleased that they seem to be working of fixing that scary dangerous section just east of Golden.\u00a0 My dash-cam caught some young bighorn sheep beside the road on that section – a common sight there.\u00a0 view full size and look by the telephone pole:<\/p>\n

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Also stopped at the Spiral Tunnels to do some rephotography.\u00a0Here are two old pictures of me there.\u00a0 The left is, I think, from when I was 12 (I was a much better dresser back then, I’m sure you’ll agree). The right was from my early 20s I think.<\/p>\n

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There was nobody with me this time to properly repro the photo, so instead I did the other kind of rephotography: picture-in-picture:<\/p>\n

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For those who don’t know, Spiral Tunnels is just that – a pair of spiral train tunnels that help trains negotiate a difficult pass. \u00a0There is a viewing area where you can often see the same train going in and coming out of a tunnel at once, crossing over itself in the process. \u00a0The novelty wore off after the first visit though.<\/p>\n

Lots of construction delays up to Banff, and heavy rains in that area too, but after that an uneventful drive into Calgary.<\/p>\n

I took about 400 pictures today but haven’t had time to go through them.\u00a0 Will perhaps post some another time.<\/p>\n

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