What I want to be when I grow up

COLUMBIA ICE FIELDS VISITOR CENTER, BETWEEN LAKE LOUISE AND JASPER

Now this is a BUS! As you can see by the relative size of our Honda Element versus the Glacier Bus the Element needs a to start eating Wheaties. The custom-made bus fleet are outfitted with huge tires with tractor-style lugs to better grip the ice/show of the Columbia Glacier. Right, you ride the bus to the glacier and then out onto the glacier. But there were no busses running today - - because it isn't tourist season yet. Although you can't see it in the picture a snow squall was blowing hard across the glacier on the other side of the road. It was that sort of day on our drive up the Ice Fields Parkway, a 142 mile spectacular route through the Canadian Rockies...snow, grey skies, visually fantastic but hard to pick up the feeling with a camera.