Continuing the drive. April 21-23.

From Moosomin we drove westbound on the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) in near freezing temperatures until the Alberta border. We arrived at Stu and Monica's home in Calgary around 4 PM in warmer weather. Later Lorne and LeeAnn joined us for a wonderful evening of reminiscing. I've known Stu since high school and Lorne since first year of university. He introduced me to pharmacology. 

The next morning we drove the Trans-Canada Hwy through Banff National Park westward as far as the intersection with Hwy 93.  The Trans-Canada Hwy east of Golden, BC was closed for almost all of May, and traffic was detoured south via Hwy 93 to Radium Hot Springs then north on Hwy 95 to Golden. As we drove through the detour, we carefully out the detour to determine its suitability for bicycling in the eastbound direction. It didn't look safe enough with bumper to bumper traffic from Banff to Radium Hot Springs making us think that we would probably use the Yellow head Pass. We stopped in Armstrong to visit Jeannette a childhood friend from my childhood in Rhone.