From: "Jean-Francois Charette" <jf_charette@hotmail.com>
To: [...]
Subject: Great view with NO BUGS! Life is good!
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:21:44 -0400

Ahhh!!! JAsper! Fresh air... Clear waters.... NO BUGS!!!! It's great to be 
in the mountains!

I left Hinton late this morning (around 12:30) Due to a wet tent a the 
developing colonies of mold due to that. I spread out the sheets and had to 
wait till they were completely dry before packing them. Having time to kill 
I eat breakfast with a neighboring family of campers from Perry Sound 
Ontario that was driving to the Rocky's and back in a motor home. Really 
nice folks and quite impressed about my trip. Would not stop asking question 
after question about this or that relating to my adventures. It kind of felt 
nice having someone to talk to. Makes a change from singing "I'm a Lumber 
Jack and I'm OK" at the top of my lungs while peddling away as 18 wheelers 
zip by :) I have to confess... You do go a little MAD after over 4000Km by 
yourself.

I went to Maligne canyon before going into town (Jasper that is). That's a 
5Km steep uphill climb that keeps winding from one side of the mountain to 
the other. Got some good pictures when I reached the top but Ouch! What a 
climb! Do I even need to mention that on my way back down I had the worlds 
biggest grin :) (I could afford to do so, there are few if any bugs here)

Unfortunately my time is very limited to write E-Mails (Like usual I guess) 
But I did want to mention what route I planned to take to get to my brothers 
house from here...

I plan to go to lack Louise.... Then spend one day in Banff and bike back to 
Lake Louise. From there I'll go to Golden and through Roger's Pass to 
Revelstoke and eventually find my way to Kenora. If I have time I'll E-Mail 
before reaching Kenora but if not... I'll speak to you all in the comforts 
of Stephane's place :)

Leo - GREAT picture... We'll see if I can make it to the shower... We'll 
talk about that when I get back.

Dianne/ Luc - Merci pour l'encouragement. Il ne me rest tellement peux que 
honetement... il n'y a plus grand chose qui peut m'arreter :)

Jane - Can you do me a HUGE favor? Can you try and find two embroided (Not 
too sure how to spell it but you understand) patches. One with the Ontario 
crest and one with the Manitoba crest? I looked everywhere along the way but 
never found one for those two provinces. Let me know if it's at all 
possible. Thanx