Day 2: Into The Badlands
to start, this morning we took advantage of our last time in the luxury of a hotel by taking our sweet time enjoying the free wi-fi, electricity and breakfasts. things that will be scarce from here on out!
setting ourselves up for succes!
Today’s plan was to try and get most of our supplies for the next month. we started off by heading over to MEC to get a few things such as: a head lamp for Marty, bear repellent and a new trophy bottle. totally forgetting about the camp stove fuel… guess we’ll have to go without coffee tomorrow… but thankfully we had more success at Costco witch to my knowledge we didn’t forget anything meaning that we should be good for food for the next month!
ft. Tim and our little home on 4 wheels.
into the prairies we go!
After our little shopping spree we started heading over to Drumheller, a small town we previously didn’t even know existed that was suggested by our airplane friend Dylan. to get there we took what seamed to be the longest straight road in Canada, its baffling how different the scenery is here compared to the east coast, huge rolling hills turned into flat fields stretching out over the endless horizon with roads slicing the landscape in mile long squares. absolutely stunning.
the wild wild west
Deep in the badlands of Alberta, we arrived in Drumheller a small town with its surroundings straight out of a wild west movie deep in the canyons, famous for its dinosaurs and absolutely jaw dropping scenery. this place feels like Radiator Springs from Cars with the huge walls and pillars of sandstone surrounding the valley, we never imagined seeing something like this in Canada!
flashback to the jurrasic age
after taking in the views we headed over to the royal Tyrrell museum to see real dinosaur bones and cool fossils. although unsure in the beginning this place blew me away! we where able to see full dinosaur fossils and we learned a lot about the different ages and how we came to be! apparently Alberta and BC are one of the most fossil rich places on earth.
night in the canyons
realizing that we didn’t know where to sleep we started our little vagabond research and ended up finding a little place out of town called horse thief canyon.
probably the best decision we could have ever made, with clear skies and jaw dropping scenery, we were able to set up our camp and assist to one of the most beautiful sunset in the world.
ft. Marty atop his little corner of nowhere.
todays tally:
marty’s kill count goes up to 2.
Tim forgets the name of Drumheller over 7 times.
