የታተመ: 18.02.2019
I am very happy to report again from the beautiful, snowy, icy
Mississauga in the Greater Toronto Area. Our weather is how an actual
winter is supposed to be, so instead of your +10 C sunshine we have
between -5 C and -16 C with occasional snowstorms and some freezing
rain (which hurts). But I am still kicking and going to work.
Currently I am learning lots of Spanish, because we have plans to go
to South America. In March we will both be taking the TEFOL exam to
get an English-teaching certificate. So between the 3 weekends
starting with March 8th
until Sunday, 23rd
I will not be able to skype on the weekend, because I will be in
school most of the day and otherwise just eating and sleeping. Not
time for other things! I am already very exited, mostly about leaving
the cold!
Yes, that's enough for now. I will continue writing in German so that I don't forget it and my language skills don't totally decline.
In my blog, we are almost at the end of the road trip. There are a few destinations missing until October 1st, 2018, the date I flew back to Toronto.
After our bear adventure, we unfortunately had to return to the cold and the tourist areas.
But before we get to the MAIN event:
Waterfalls.
Yeah.
Also, we also visited a few canyons in Wells Provincial Park, which were also great, but the waterfalls, as always, didn't impress me that much. If you still want to know their names: We visited the Spahat Falls and the Helmcken Falls.
More waterfalls
Canyon at the Helmcken Falls
Some guy I photographed while he was taking pictures of our dirty car..
The river where the salmon swim and fail. Swimming uphill is not easy.
And then the moment had come. We had reached Jasper and were about to explore the Icefield Parkway when it started to snow -.- So we waited another day in Jasper and instead went to see the Maligne Canyon in the snow. With a snowball fight. In September!!!
And we also saw our first caribou :)
A caribou
Where is the snowball?
Mud, mud, mud
A picture I was prepared for
A picture I was not prepared for :D
When we arrived at the glacier, we had internet again for a short time, because we didn't have it at the campground and only at the hostel. We also had no reception on the entire Icefield Parkway, which can be very refreshing when you know where you want to go...
The Athabasca Glacier
Eva didn't feel like coming to the glacier, so we had to improvise:
With Eva
Here, as with every glacier: The shrinkage chart.
Now let's move on to a series of 'stolen' pictures from Google, all taken by me:
for Jan ;)
Okay, I think that's enough :D I believe I have provided enough visual material to show how many mountains we saw in 2 days. Of course, always in combination with lakes to make the mountains look even more impressive. Now it feels like a fashion show for mountains. Well, we had a lot of fun, but the adventure will soon come to an end, and so will the money ;)
Next time, we will actually reach the end of the road trip and also (for now) the end of my travel adventures.
Until next time!
Lea
*Bonus material*
A hidden picture ;)
Big leaf and small stubby fingers
Maybe in the next blog, I'll show a collection of all my beautiful faces from my trip :D
When we didn't have electricity for a long time...
Yep, the picture is very unrealistic, but still not as beautiful as it actually looked. And yes, Marieke...all the pictures are, as always, stolen from Google Image Search
When I was photographed without knowing it...
hehe...I won't miss this type of toilet..
aha