Finishing up!

August 23^rd,

Farewell to Fairmont.

This was our last day at Sun Chasers. The mountains are gone again, the smoke is back. :-(

 We got up in reasonable time and has breakfast. Then we proceeded to get our remaining personal items and groceries out to the trailer. I cleaned everything and left a thank you note. No where did it mention a gratuity, so we had no guidance. But we left a small tip anyway.

Next we drove over to the registration building and turned in the keys and the questioner and evaluation sheet we had been given when we registered.

We hooked up and headed out. We really enjoyed our stay at Sun Chasers and we plan to return.

 The amount of smoke was the worst we had seem. The air was blue all of the way down to the level of the highway. I kept remembering how amazed I was the very first time I had seen the mountains. Today it was as if we were in another world, a flat world. It is so hard to believe that smoke could hide mountains.

We stopped at the Husky station in Golden and had lunch. As soon as we got parked we were approached by a man with a heavy accent who wanted us to buy his GOLD ring and his gold chain. You see he was out of money and wanted to get to Vancouver to visit his mother who was in the hospital having surgery for Kidney stones.   A new scam but we did not fall for his sad story.

We are at Canyon Hot Springs which is in Albert Canyon. We come here almost every year. The hot pool is very nice and the campground is top notch. The sites and long and flat and easy to get into and out of. Usually the view of the mountains is amazing. Today the world is in a blue gray haze and a red orange sun is trying to warm this valley. 

There is no WiFi or radio or TV here so it feels as though I am cut off from the world. It is a feeling I would have to get used to… It makes me a bit uneasy.

The good part is the fact we are close to a very bust set of train tracks and Ken is in his glory.

We may go to the railroad museum in Revelstoke tomorrow.