Sometimes the highlights of a vacation happen by accident, and that’s how we discovered the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta.

We’d planned a week-long stay in Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, complete with a side trip to Dinosaur Provincial Park in Patricia. I’d made reservations for the bus tour a month in advance. The Red Deer River Valley is home to one of the richest fossil beds in the world, and we wanted to see how the Canadian Badlands stacked... Read More

Question: David S. asks: We are planning a trip to Alberta Canada and visiting the Canadian Rockies this August; anything you can tell us about the Rockies would be most helpful. Also I believe there is an overnite train w/a glass top.

Answer: AAA travel publishing manager Renuka Sastri, who took this trip last summer, says: August is a wonderful time of the year to visit the Canadian Rockies area. There are a number of options that you could follow:

The no-drive option: Take a tour - The Rocky Mountaineer, the train with the glass dome top... Read More