During the drive, whenever the Rocky Mountains would peek out from behind a hill or between the clouds, I was in awe. One thing we love about our first few days on the road is getting to see the sunset and enjoy twilight in a new place each day. One of those places was Waterton Lakes National Park where we hiked to Bertha Falls. Near the beginning of our hike, we met two sweet deer of which we were at arms length! They were enjoying the view of the blue water and snowy mountains just as much as we were. Snow periodically blus- tered through the valley as we walked along the trail. Thankfully this time it was much less snowy than our last hike, however, we still couldn’t make it all the way to the peak because of the snow packed trail – nevertheless, the falls were incredible. We crossed the border between Alberta, Canada and Montana, USA at the Piegan / Carway site. The drive was beautiful but windy through the farmlands and the mountains peaking out beyond the foothills occasionally. We did some shopping in Great Falls, tanked up with gas, and parked outside of a McDonald’s for their free Wi-Fi so we could research, plan, and get some work done before being off grid for a few days. Not going to lie, we spent eight hours in that parking lot before continuing onto our rest stop destination for the night.
with the name, it is loosely based on the park which sparked fond memories from Canada Day costume contests to pancake breakfast with Yogi Bear to licking jawbreakers as big as my face. There is a lot to learn about the tumultuous history of national parks as this title was often
used by colonizers to drive indigenous people from the area and leaders took measures to ensure they would not be able to return, but that is a story for a different day. We drove until sunset and got up early while the clouds were still sitting on the trees in low lying areas. Nothing can beat that.
In the first few minutes of driving, we witnessed a herd of bison clogging up traffic – later we found out this is a regular occurrence. On our way to Lamar Valley, we came across a bunch of cars pulled off the road and people with tele- photographic cameras or telescopes. Of course, we pulled off and asked a nice older gentleman what they were all looking at. He explained to
Our next stop was Yellowstone National Park, the world’s first ever official national park estab - lished in 1872. On our way there, for some reason, the thought of Yellowstone reminded me of all the family camping trips at Jellystone Campground back home. As you can imagine
123 MAY/JUNE 2022 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
122 SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • MAY/JUNE 2022
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