We stopped at the St. Mary Gas Station to top off the tank in the RV and paid $3.999 a gallon. We also stopped at the St. Mary Supermarket to get some propane in our on board tank and found out that they had run out of propane. We hitched up the car to the RV there and headed north on US-89 to the U.S.-Canadian border. We again tried to call the Symon's Valley RV Park where we're planning to stay tonight and only get voice mail.
We passed through the small town of Babb and saw this large log house.
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We arrived at the Canadian border at 9:45 and were the only ones crossing into Canada.
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We handed our passports to the border officer and she asked us the usual questions - purpose for entering Canada, where was our residence, any alcohol & tobacco and how much, any firearms, what our occupations were, and did we have any items we were planning to sell in Canada. She also wanted to know if we had spoken with an immigration officer on our 2 previous visits to Canada. On our first visit to Canada we had to go inside and spoke with an officer and he entered our information in the computer, but we didn't know if he had been an immigration officer. She handed back our passports along with a yellow paper and instructed us where to park our RV and that we were to come inside and talk with an immigration officer.
Once inside we handed over our passports again (& the yellow paper) and he asked us if we had ever been to court or convicted of a felony. He asked some of the same questions the other officer had asked and then entered our passport information in the computer. After a few minutes he handed back our passports and wished us a pleasant trip.
We headed north on Highway 2 and passed through some small towns on our way to Calgary. We drove through Cardston and saw a Fay Wray Fountain (we did get a photo of the sign for the fountain).
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We saw this gas station in Cardston $1.219 for regular. Not bad, but that is for a liter and that works out to $4.614 a gallon (that's not accounting for the currency exchange rate).
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We stopped at a pull-off about 25 miles north of Cardston for and early lunch at 11:00.
We then drove through Fort MacLeod and decided to drive on the historic Main Street instead of the truck route
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and if we had taken the truck route we would have gone by the reconstruction of Fort MacLeod which is now the Museum for the North-West Mounted Police.
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We saw this gas station in Claresholm and the gas is lower here - $1.154 a liter ($4.368 a gallon)
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and saw these familiar businesses
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and this cute drive-in.
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We saw the Happy Face Equestrian Farm near Nanton
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and this interesting building or ten near High River.
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We continued north on Hwy 2 and drove on the east side of Calgary and then on the Beddington Trail to the north side of Calgary where we saw housing areas built up on the hills around Calgary. The housing developments extended as far as we could see - talk about urban sprawl! But the houses are really nice looking and some are quite large. Some have almost no space between homes and others have large lawns.
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We arrived at Symon's Valley RV Park at 2:30 and the office was closed! Mike called the phone number on the office door and got voice mail. He saw a couple of men at the park and they said to just walk around and find a site and register later. It had been raining here and the roads inside the park were muddy. Mike called me while he was looking for a site and said the place was a mess - there was mud everywhere.
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While Mike was looking for a decent campsite, I was trying to find an alternative campground nearby. Mike eventually found a site that would do and we pulled the RV into it.
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We are in site #112 and have 30 amp electric with water and sewer. There is free wi-fi here - it isn't a strong signal, but it is adequate. Mike put blocks under the jacks to keep them from sinking into the mud under the RV. Tomorrow we'll see if anyone is in the office so we can register. This is a Passport America campground and the cost if half-price.
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