Day 13, Back to Cowtown

After a quick breakfast and some long goodbyes the 4 of us climbed into the Impreza for the trip back to Calgary. Kevin had suggested the 'scenic' route as he is wont to do. We turned off on the Trans Canada leaving the relatively boring but high-speed Coquilla for the long views of the Fraser and Thompson River valleys on #1. Our guide had said we would lose about a half an hour but the views were worth it. I have 2 issues with that advice Mr. Wicklund, construction and 3 sleeping passengers. We lost abut 2 hours, mostly due to construction. #1 is mostly 2 lanes through twisty mountain roads, beautiful but I'm the only one that saw most of it. I stayed behind the wheel until we got back to Banff where Mike brought us home in the rain, dodging a tire in the middle of our lane quite nicely. I read 'Call of the Wild' on my phone since the mountains were now obscured by cloud anyway. The pic below is the view I remember most, sitting behind the Barrel of Monkeys waiting for construction at the entrance to a tunnel. Honestly the drive was something I always wanted to experience, the Colquihilla is faster but missed much of the charm of the drive through BC. You're off the hook Kev.