Day 19 - Golden

Lake Louise was so picture-perfect. Part of the lake was still frozen.

We are again heading for Vancouver, BC, on the Trans-Canada Highway #1. We were rushing a bit and skipped so many places that would have been worth visiting. But we decided to skip them for now and revisit this region later.

At one point, we drove through a strange and boring-looking landscape with sandy hills, sparsely overgrown with low shrubs, similar to a high desert, but not exactly. We later learned that this area gets extremely hot during the summer, and hardly any plants can survive the brutal heat.

Our journey continued toward Kamloops. Shortly before Hope, we noticed more lush vegetation again.Read more