GNRT DAY 15 OH CANADA

Today we bid goodbye to beautiful Glacier We’re traveling to a tiny house in Monarch, Canada…on our way to Banff Which is distressing for a person who love rhymes not because it won’t be beautiful…but because nothing rhymes with Banff. But that is for another day…today we crossed the border into Alberta, Canada and still illuminated by Na’pi’s sun we spent part of the day in the National park…known as Waterton. First a little history: Glacier National park does not end at the Canadian border…no it continues forth…. In fact those Rocky Mountains we love so much we share with our neighbors to the north. Instead of separating them into two parks… our two countries decided these parks should be combined… And in 1932 they established the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park… the first park of its kind. To this day the Blackfeet, Kootenai and Salish Indian tribes hold these mountains sacred…as they do the Earth, the rivers…the sky With teach step into this International Peace Park…you begin to understand why. The beauty we experienced in Glacier…that we thought was second to none… extends itself northward…and into Waterton. From its mountain lake, its giant peaks…its red rock canyon and falls just like Glacier to the south…Waterton has it all. We even saw a grizzly bear…couldn’t tell if it was a he or she and a black bear with her baby cubs…not one, not two…but three. As I’ve said repeatedly finding the words to explain all this beauty is extremely hard… for these past few days it’s like we’ve been living…inside of a post card. A post card I send out to you… It’s message is a simple one…I pray… that one day International peace will be more than just a park between Canada and the USA