July 25, 2011 - Travis Goes Home

We really didn’t do anything today other than drive back and forth to Calgary to see Travis off on his trip back to Alabama.

Once we got back to the campground, we headed into Banff so that I could go to the Starbucks at the gondola ride and upload a few days’ worth of blog as well as get a few bills paid!!! So, we both got something to drink and found a shady place to work on the computer for a while. I got all of the emails cleared, paid the bills, and made one post to facebook. I am just a little bit sorry about posting all of the temperatures we encountered once we got to Canada – the highest being about 72!!! But, that was why we came north – to find cooler temperatures.

From there, we decided to see if we could find the drive which led down to the foot of the falls next to the Fairmont Banff. We had taken a walk along the river and to the falls when Travis was there, but we were not on the right side of the river to get a really good view of the falls. Strangely enough, the road to the river was very well marked and I got some good pictures on my little camera.

Back to town we went trying to find souvenirs. We went to every store on Banff Avenue and still found nothing to buy. We did see a good many people who appeared to have been dressed for watching golf. That is because the Telus Skins Game was going on at the golf course at the Fairmont. When we had been to the hotel, we had noted the full sized cut outs of some golfers, but we did not really recognize all of the names. When we went to the bar side of the Boston Pizza to get dinner, they were replaying the days’ rounds. I truly do not understand skins play in golf, but I do know that the players seem to have more fun than in a round of PGA golf. They always seem to be joking around and kidding each other.

We went back to the campground earlier than most nights and just relaxed since we would be on the road tomorrow.