South of Calgary we plummeted into the Alberta badlands. The earth fell away suddenly, leaving Deborah feeling like she was sitting in the front car of a roller coaster. Layers of sedimentary rock rose on both sides of a long, narrow canyon. It was a breathtaking place to run out of gas.
Just shy of Drumheller, AB is the ye olde mining town of East Coulee, which the residents informed us is now mostly a filming location for western movies. Jim, the kindly proprietor of an antique store, rustled us up a gallon of gasoline and we were back on our way.
We skirted around the outer edge of Calgary just as the sun was going down and made it to Canmore eight hours after leaving Saskatoon. When we checked into our hotel, we were stunned by the swank factor of our 2-bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury condo, which features a full kitchen with a dishwasher and even laundry facilities. After a long day in the car, we picked up burgers from a local brew pub, played a rousing game of Cards Against Humanity and collapsed into our respective beds. All the while unaware of what lay right outside our bedroom windows...
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