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Its funny but I have seen more wildlife in our own garden than I have in the Rockies.

It didn't used to be this way, there was wildlife at the side of the roads 40 years ago and huddles of cars would stop and take pictures, but they built fantastic wildlife overpasses and put up high metal fences next to the main roads and there are strict fines for feeding any wildlife in the National Parks.

You would probably have been the one to save the footballer player with your cheeky wit had anything happened.

Thanks Roger, I also took a 35 minute ferry ride each way across Kootenay Lake BC to have fish and chips at Balfour with my old friend, that was pretty cool - not only is the ferry free but they put on extra trips for tourist season.

It is good to know I can do things by myself, but I do have AMA roadside assist backing me up and a husband who would (and has) come and hauled my unit home on a flatbed if I were to break down. This time the engine ran great but the camper part had some (4) issues - like your old joke of seeing the stars/tent stolen - I got a 3:00 AM facial shower in bed as my vent had flown off LOL  Thank goodness for duct tape. 

I did an almost 3000KM solo, two-province, 10-night, trip in my 34 year old campervan. I stopped by and saw my son, sister and an old friend along the way but mostly I did things on my own.

I paddled in Waterton and Kooteny Lakes, caught a replica 1880s RCMP musical ride at Fort Macleod, danced with the Blackfoot in a pow-wow at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, saw the zoo and dinosaur museum, a Harry Potter broom cottage industry, bought fresh fruit grown in the Creston Valley of British Columbia, saw the Columbia Icefield in the Rockies and the bear statues at Jasper. Saw real bear, elk and wild sheep. I could have popped down to the USA because I was only 6KM from the border but didn’t (MAGA era).

Came back with a can-do attitude and a race against the clock before winter settles in once again.     

I've always regarded Star Trek as science fantasy rather than science fiction.

Similarly, the difference between the football match you "watched", Mincey, and the ones that actually occurred.

I can to an extent understand the tongue-in-cheek: the original Star Trek could be camp, with low-budget sets, theatrical acting, and over-the-top costumes; the story-telling was light-hearted so that non-sci-fi fans could enjoy the ride; and sometimes futuristic concepts became absurd and comical.

The later Star Trek could be similar, but also grittier, with lines like: "What you call genocide, I call a day's work."