The Journey Continues; into Canada

Today we moved just 60 miles north, crossing the border to Crooked Creek Campground in Waterton, Alberta.

I’d made this a short hop because I’d read to allow an hour and a half to cross the border into Canada. You now have to download an app called ArriveCAN and fill that out. You upload images of your passports and your vaccination records. Within a 72 hour window before you arrive you fill in your crossing point and time (date and hour) and where you are headed on arrival. They email back a receipt with a scannable code block which you are to present at the border.

In addition to that we: Put our passports, vaccination records, vehicle registrations and proof of insurance, and Matey’s rabies vaccination paper together in folder; ate up all of our fresh fruits and vegetables; ate, gave away or threw out any unprocessed grain (several kinds of rice); used up all of our fresh meat and eggs; and gave away my pepper spray.

We arrived at the border and it was a non-event. We were behind another trailer and they were quickly processed. On our turn the agent asked for our passports; didn’t need the code, she said the ArriveCAN information was linked to our passports. She asked for the license plate number of the truck, asked Bud if we had any alcohol, tobacco or firearms (no), and wished us a safe journey. The whole thing, including the wait, was less than 5 minutes.

We stopped at a grocery store in the next town and bought meat, rice and fresh produce and now we are here.

This is a nice campground, and it does have a crooked creek.

It has paths through walk-in tent areas.

We are on the eastern edge of the Canadian Rockies.

This evening, while walking Matey, I took this photo of the plains to the east. Then I turned around…

and took this one of the mountains to the west. Tomorrow we explore.