USA-Mexico-Canada Tour - October 13th - 22nd

October 13th, Winnipeg itself isn't a big city...but so many people know stories about so I was kind of excited to see that place where it can get -50 degrees in the winter time. I rode around the city almost all day and then in the evening I hung out with some other volunteers.

October 14th, today we all took it easy and didn't do much. In the evening I went out for a drink with 2 of the volunteers. Later that night I was supposed to catch a bus to Saskatoon but I found out when I got there that this was isn't included in my Greyhound bus pass. Well so I slept one more night in Winnipeg and then took the bus the next day.

October 15th, so finally I was back on the bus through the prairies to Saskatoon, SK. People always told me the prairies are flat and boring... yeah and I agree on the flat part but not on the boring part. It was cool to see the endless open space with a few little villages along the highway. Then around 8pm I got to Saskatoon where my friend's parents picked me up. First thing they did with me was to go to a eatery and lounge to have some food and beer! Parents like these are great...

October 16th, Saskatoon itself isn't really a tourist town...but it lays on the Saskatchewan river and has a few nice buildings. And there was a museum about native history in that area. For dinner we were a big group, my friend's siblings and cosuin had dinner with us. It was great to get to know them. Then after dinner and dessert I had to go back on the bus...

October 17th, after a long long detour I arrived in Medicine Hat, AB where Kaylene (old friend from Vancouver) picked me up. We bought some ugly sweaters for the college party next night and then went to play volleyball with a bunch of her friends from school.

October 18th, Kaylene had to attend some classes in the morning so I went fo ra run. In the afternoon we went kayaking on a river there and then in the evening we went to that Medicine Hat College bar - The Den -. And it really was a great party where I had the chance to meet a lot of new people...aromd 3 am after we partied more at the student residence we all went to bed. Oh yeah look a my nice ugly sweater we got that from a thrift store...

October 19th, I had to get up at 7am so I could catch the bus to Calgary, AB...well it maybe wasn't the best idea to go to bed so late like we did. So I slept most of the time to Calgary. There I had to check in at the hostel, then get some food and later in the afternoon I had to pick a friend from Germany that would join me for my last 2 weeks in Canada. After I picked her up we went to buy some groceries for our supper. The evening we spent inside because of the rainy weather.

October 20th, in the morning Rabea and I checked out Calgary downtown and around noon we decided to take the bus to Banff because in Calgary wasn't much to see beside some hight buildings and a few people that pretend to be cowboys...once we got to Banff, AB we hookd up with a gyu from Australia and hiked up to the hostel which was up on Tunnel Mountain. We had supper, drunk some beer and then went to bed around 10pm.

October 21st, once I'm in the Rocky Mountains I have to go for a hike, so we hiked along a small river. After that we went to the Hot Springs and then hiked bacl to the hostel. It was already quite cold there and we also had a little bit of snow. Banff itself was full with people from all over the world. These people tried to find a job for the winter in the ski areas around Banff.

October 22nd, the next stop for us was Lake Louise, AB. The Greyhound bus dropped us off close to the hostel, nice big hostel with a sauna! We used the last sunlight to hike up the 5km to the lake on the way down we got a ride from a couple from England. The evening we spent eatind, drinking some wine and in the sauna.