Canadian Confusion!

As we headed north across the border and into the southern portion of Alberta, we were surprised to encounter rolling hills and grasslands. Both Don and I thought that once we entered the Canadian Mounted Police territory, it would be nothing but forests and tall pine trees. On our route through Calgary, we didn't get into the pines until we were almost to Banff.

We were quite unprepared for the Canadian signs, or should I say, lack of them? We stopped at a visitor center and the man there had suggested we turn and go south (or was it west)at this street in Calgary. Is this as confusing to you as us? Why would we go north on an east-west street? Do directions change north of the U.S. border? Do Canadians know something that we don't? They must, otherwise their signs would be less confusing.
In the photo below, you can see we are almost to Banff National Park. Finding the main entrance was the easy part. Finding the trailer campground was quite another! Forget putting directions to the campground in your Garmin or Tomtom or whatever. There is NO street address on their multiple websites! A Post Office Box just doesn't work for some odd reason. At least it doesn't for us American folk. By this point, our two way radio was petering out on us and we could no longer use our Verizon phones since we were across the border. Might as well have been across the ocean at this point! This was not part of our "well thought out " plans. Maybe a good backup plan at this point would have been for Sandy and me to hang on the windows and do signs with flags!

We found out that once you get near the campground here, there are NO signs that say "entrance". It is up to you to guess if this is actually the entrance or maybe a dirt road to a place where it would be impossible to turn your rig around. Two rigs backing up a dirt road would not have been a pretty picture. We passed by two entrance points (remember: no signs) and ended up doing a U-turn in the town of Banff ! Ahead of us is Jerry almost at the check in point for the campground. There were 4 rather testy people in our vehicles at this point!
After all of that, we were extremely happy to finally settle in our campsites. I think Don and Jerry headed for some cold liquid refreshments as a top priority item on their agenda. We were sure grateful that Gary and Sherry had gotten here before us, and had a meal ready.
This is what the most of the Banff RV sites look like. Gary and Sherry's coach is across from us, Jerry and Sandy are directly ahead of us. As they say, "All's well that ends well"!