Peter and I try to get away for a road trip every May to mark our anniversary with some time alone together in a small space, without interruption to make sure we still like each other and want to stay married. We do.

This year we drove East. We managed to squeeze in 4 National Parks: Jasper, Elk Island, Banff and Kootenay. We only took 1 wrong turn in the whole week and it was an easy recovery. We saw a very sad display of wild life; a black bear wearing a collar wandering down the highway on the wrong side of the wildlife protection fence and a brown bear trying to pry open a garbage bin at a rest area we chose not to stop at. In Banff we camped beside a pair of mangy bored elk and in Jasper there was a pair of bighorn sheep lounging along the highway. It certainly takes the “wild’ out of wildlife. And even though I did get a few photos at least I wasn’t the idiot who got out of the car, flailing arms and posing 3 feet away from the big horns of the sheep for his girlfriend hanging out the car window making a tiktok on her phone.

The Rockies, as always, are spectacular.

Lots more happened, but that can wait for another post.

Yvonne