We get up early. Head into our next “adopted” elegant Hotel Jasper Park Lodge to check email and make calls. We find a mail from an Alaskan Cruise specialist in response to our phone message. And the departure date is July 25, next weekend! Ever since our coach surfing host in Las Vegas told us about a Noetic Sciences Conference on board an Alaskan Cruise in early September we have been thinking about it. We have dreamed about going to Alaska as part of our Dream Trip in the Western US, but didn’t consider a Cruise. We finally decide that September is not a good time for our schedule and fear the weather could be too cold. So we started looking for one NOW!? As we look online we find most of the current cruises are booked completely! To every one of there thousands for rooms, except for the suites, etc. Everyone we have talked to said it was impossible for a reasonable cruise at this late date in the high season of July and August. So after we have resigned to not going or going perhaps later in August, we get this email. So we decided that the earlier, the warmer and the better for our schedule. And we wanted to leave from Vancouver so we have more time to cruise in the nice areas. So getting this email is truly a miracle. We hurry to call and see if it is still available. Since we have a couple of days to get to the Ship.
We decide to quickly leave back down thru the Icefields and out thru the other parks of Yoho and Glacier. On the side of the road we spot a Grizzly Bear. We go toward the smoke that has gotten worse either from the controlled burn they sign posted on the road or the fire forest fires and now burning out of control in the Okanagan, Canada’s wine and farm district. Terrible. And bad for our photos. We plan to arrive in Vancouver by Friday night to check out the Pier situation before our Saturday departure.
We get up early. Head into our next “adopted” elegant Hotel Jasper Park Lodge to check email and make calls. We find a mail from an Alaskan Cruise specialist in response to our phone message. And the departure date is July 25, next weekend! Ever since our coach surfing host in Las Vegas told us about a Noetic Sciences Conference on board an Alaskan Cruise in early September we have been thinking about it. We have dreamed about going to Alaska as part of our Dream Trip in the Western US, but didn’t consider a Cruise. We finally decide that September is not a good time for our schedule and fear the weather could be too cold. So we started looking for one NOW!? As we look online we find most of the current cruises are booked completely! To every one of there thousands for rooms, except for the suites, etc. Everyone we have talked to said it was impossible for a reasonable cruise at this late date in the high season of July and August. So after we have resigned to not going or going perhaps later in August, we get this email. So we decided that the earlier, the warmer and the better for our schedule. And we wanted to leave from Vancouver so we have more time to cruise in the nice areas. So getting this email is truly a miracle. We hurry to call and see if it is still available. Since we have a couple of days to get to the Ship. 
We decide to quickly leave back down thru the Icefields and out thru the other parks of Yoho and Glacier. On the side of the road we spot a Grizzly Bear. We go toward the smoke that has gotten worse either from the controlled burn they sign posted on the road or the fire forest fires and now burning out of control in the Okanagan, Canada’s wine and farm district. Terrible. And bad for our photos. We plan to arrive in Vancouver by Friday night to check out the Pier situation before our Saturday departure. 
We wait at the viewpoint lookout for Lake Peyto for sunset photos and then sleep in the huge Rocky Mountains by a lake with a glacier hanging over us and brilliant stars above and no moon. 
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