Wednesday July 31

 After a restful night we grabbed some breakfast food at a coffee shop where we have always had good food from.

We also picked up subs for our lunch (and later on, supper).

The drive back through the mountains to Banff National Park was great. We stopped at Lake Louise for gas and carried on to our first major stop of Peyto Lake. Beautiful as alway!

The clouds were predominant however there were many times that shafts of sunshine shone down on the mountain peaks giving us spectacular views. Truly, wonderful views.

As we headed north towards Saskatchewan Crossing, (the road north of there towards Jasper being closed due to the bad fire that burned down 30% of the town of Jasper), we passed a sign for Mistaya Canyon. We had never been there so I made a split second decision to turnaround and go back to see it. Good call by me as the visit was wonderful. This canyon is a small version of Maligne Canyon near Jasper. 

We had our next break after leaving the parks, at Crescent Falls. The Alberta government has spent a lot of money and effort making this a nice stopping point. There is still work to do but it is coming along nicely.

We stopped in at Nordegg and found a place to eat lunch. Nordegg is a pretty little town.

Homeward bound, we went via highway 11 towards Red Deer. At Sylvan lake there is a four lane divided highway bypassing that town. This highway has two major traffic circles on it. At the first one I was in the left lane and a large tanker truck was on my right. As we slowly entered the circle the trucker cut over into our lane forcing us up into the centre part of the circle. Fortunately no damage to us (although if I hadn’t moved our vehicle it would have been destroyed). 

We got home about 6:30.

The Seltos was fantastic! The gas mileage was amazing. We got 58 mpg in one section of road (we were driving 80-85 km.hr during that stretch of highway). Our last tank of gas was 52 mpg and that included two hours of 118 km/hr on highway 2. Very impressive!. The vehicle was comfortable and had good acceleration when needed.