Trip to Banff

In a few weeks, E&I are taking a little road trip out to Banff. I have an aunt who lives out there, so we'll visit her. But we also just want to get away from Manitoba for a little while.

I haven't been out to Banff for a long time. After I finished my final year of bible college (yes, I actually went to bible college) I spent a summer working in Banff. It was great! I loved the hiking, the mountains, the air, the rivers and everthing. I didn't really like the mass exodus in of tourists. Most of whom were either seniors or Japanese. By mid-June, it was a sea of people in town. I lived with my aunt in her apartment that summer and worked as a front desk clerk in a hotel, Irwin's Moter Inn. It's still there, I checked.

It was a fun summer. But I came to the conclusion that in spite of my enjoyment, I couldn't live right smack in the mountains - I didn't like the shadows. There wasn't any sunrise, just the sun coming out from behind a peak, and there wasn't a sunset, just the sun disappearing mid evening behind a peak on the other side. I just felt a little to closed in. Not that I feel I need a vast prairie with absolutely no landscape variation around me... heaven's no! But the mountains proved to be a bit too overbearing for my comfort. That and the crowds of tourists.