Friday, September 23, 2011

Calgary Space Port

Friday: (09/23) Lou fixed pancakes and bacon for breakfast on the new Griddler to give it a test. It worked fine.

Calgary Spaceport Museum Skyline View Calgary Spaceport Museum Shuttle Model
After breakfast she dropped me off at the Airport so I could visit the Calgary Space Port. It's a museum that provides some information about the Canadian Space Program. I didn't even know they had one but actually they were thew third country in space and actually established the first satellite communications system. There were lots of things they have accomplished in both space and in flight. It wasn't a very big museum and was more for kids than adults with numerous flight simulators that could be tried out, except not today, for some reason.

When Lou picked me up, we stopped for lunch of Chinese food at the Deerfoot Mall again and then we were off heading out of town on Highway 1 toward Banff and beyond. Dinner was beef log, cheese and crackers on the road. Another interesting thing to fix on the RV. As we were cruising down the highway the transmission gear selector lever fell on my leg. Rather a shock. We stopped at the Visitor's Center on the highway to see about getting a national parks pass so we could camp in the park. As Lou was checking on that, I reassembled the RV. The pin that holds the lever on had worked it's way out. Lou returned quickly because the Visitor Center was closed. We stopped for the night at Illecillewaet (Great) Campground in Canada's Glacier National Park.
(GPS:51.26382482,-117.4929225)
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