Radium Hot Springs, BC

Sunday, July 7 - From Canmore, AB we headed north, then west, then south to Radium Hot Springs. Beautiful drive, but not so great roads. We arrived at Canyon RV Resort around 2:00pm. Beautiful park with a creek running through the middle that even though we are not right up against, can still hear from our site with the windows open.

Radium is a very small town with little hotels, a couple of resorts, golf course, restaurants and gas stations. We did go up to the hot springs last night and I was kind of disappointed. I pictured them to be in the middle of nature, natural hot springs, but it was more of a big outdoor swimming pool that was 104 degrees. They also had a cold pool but that's where most of the families were. We sat in the pool for about 45 minutes with the views of the hills to our right. It was nice but just not what I had expected.

Today we ventured out all the way to the laundry room at the RV park and sat in our beach chairs and read while we waited for our laundry to finish. Then we headed "into town" and found a little restaurant called The Old Salzburg Restaurant where Scott had Wiener Schnitzel and I had Spatzle.

Tomorrow we head back to the States and end up in Coeur d' Alene, ID for one night and then on to Hells Gate State Park in Lewiston, ID where we will be joined by family for 4 days.

This has been an incredible trip and I am so sad to see it coming to an end. We haven't watched t.v. or listened to a radio for 3 weeks! And only in the last week or so have we had consistent internet. We've had better weather than we even anticipated (wearing shorts and t-shirts most every day instead of the jeans and sweatshirts that we loaded the trailer with!).  And I love how it stays light out until at least 11:00pm up here. The people have been very friendly everywhere we've gone. It has just been an all around awesome vacation.

Thanks for coming along with us!