hard to believe it has been 17 years already. We were on our way home from vacation (camping) and were at Radium that day/night. In the three campsites surrounding us were an English couple, a German couple, and an American who was cycling across western North America. He had asked if he could store his food in our truck overnight (bears) and his daughter was a lawyer in Manhattan. Of course no TV or anything so news was slow to trickle in but it was definately an odd feeling being the only Canadians and it was remarkable to see how the American guy handled it. No cell phone and he would not have been able to contact her anyway that morning with how things were going. He had no idea of whether she was okay and no way of finding out, and was literally trapped in a foreign country for the foreseeable future (no vehicle other than his bike). We decided to head home that day, it just didn't feel right staying out when the world was being turned upside down. All we had was the radio to listen to (when we were in service) for most of the day, we did not see anything on TV until we got home later that afternoon.
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