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June 22, 2007 - 7:48 AM - Beautiful sunny day in Maryland for the start of our journey! Off we go into the wild blue yonder. 12:30 PM - Miles: 260 - We arrive in Pittsburgh! We had plans but plans were made to be trained. 1:00 - When we investigated the walking tour - it actually started at 12:00pm. Thanks www.post-gazette.com for the wrong info. So instead we did our own walking tour to the Heinze Museum 5:00 pm - Went to dinner at August Henry. Can't beat FREE chicken wings. I had soup and salad, Darrell had a HUGE club sandwich with fries. 6:00 pm - Darrell goes solo to the Gallery Crawl. ...

August 8, Friday, Justin contributed parts of this piece. Today, we woke up at, yes, 5:30 (Central), bright and early, and had a great breakfast at the hotel. We packed up our car and were on the road again by 6:40. At 10:37, we crossed the Mississippi River and entered Minnesota. At noon, we stopped at McDonald’s for lunch. We entered North Dakota at 3 PM. We went over the continental divide at 4 PM, At 6, we stopped for supper at Hardee’s in Bismark ND. For all you people who don’t know what Hardee’s is… it’s about the greatest burger you can ever have, and amazing fries. So yea, we all got ...

Before I get started on our Trip Journal let me just say this was one of our very best wedding anniversary trips! We had a blast the entire time, and cannot wait to return to the Canadian Rockies in the future! Our departure from Houston on Continental Airlines was fairly routine - everything happened on schedule and no lost baggage (thank goodness!). One tip - we discovered some of Continental's planes do not have entertainment systems, so you might consider bringing your Ipod and/or a good book to keep you busy during the four hour flight to Calgary. The drive from Calgary to Banff started ...