Longview, Alberta

If the pictures didn't appear in Jasper when you checked it, please check again, I had reapplied the pictures. Sorry about the mistake, had trouble at Tim Horton's.

While sending the blog Friday at Tim Horton's, an elk came through the parking lot and laid right outside the window where we were sitting.


Saturday, July 27, we had left early this morning, had 126 miles to drive, had arrived at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site. The leaders had talked to the the Ranch U Ranch and we're sure whether or not we could park there until right before the caravan started. They said we could park in an open field overnight, which we did. We had a self guided tour of the ranch, which was located down in a hollow behind hills that you couldn't see until you got into the visitor center. The ranch was one of the first and most enduring of the last corporate ranches established in the 1880's, the Bar U was chosen to commemorate the history of the ranching industry in Canada. We followed the story of the ranch through seven decades of change from 1882 to 1950. We explored the headquarters, visited many historic buildings and learned about the people who made Bar U one of the most famous ranches of its time.


Bar U Ranch setting


Percheron horses and wagon that took us down to the ranch from visitor center


Stud Horse Barn


Horse stables


Old wagon and parts


Cook checking pies on windowsill


Leather shop, making us coasters


Inside post office


Parked in open field overnight

The Bar U Visitor Center has a cafe and the people had made us all beef stew with special ingredients, coffee and cinnamon, and biscuits for dinner after closing. We were to be served outside by a campfire with the cowboys, but the sky was very treating with storms, which didn't happen, so they decided to have it indoors. After dinner we had two cowboys entertain us, they sang and one did cowboy poetry.


This is the place where we would of had the Cowboy Cookout.


Poet and singer


Told us a story about his son and his dog.

Sunday, July 28, they had made us a breakfast buffet in the visitors center. They made two kinds of sausage, one with bison, potatoes, scrambled eggs, French toast, pancakes, oatmeal, muffins, biscuits, juice, coffee and fruit.


Cafe inside visitor center

We had another drivers meeting before heading out to the next campground. We had driven about 110 miles today, stopping at Walmart to shop for a dinner that we are helping with tomorrow.






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