Back in 2012 I was on my Kawasaki Versys 650 doing the North American tour out west to Vancouver, south to LA along the coast, around the Gulf to Florida and then up the east coast and home. It took me two months and nearly caught me up in Hurricane Sandy on the way home. One of the many highlights was the Ice Field Parkway between Banff and Jasper. Before riding that road I had always held up Highway 1 along the California coast as the most beautiful route in the nation. The Ice Fields Parkway is now number one in my book.