Tonight finds us in Medicine Hat, about 40 km from the Saskatchewan border. We started out this morning at Taber, and had good conditions for most of the day, with thunderstorms here and there around us. Our luck ran out just after we left the Medicine Hat Welcome Centre and the skies opened! Luckily an A&W was located nearby and I nursed a root beer for an hour or so while the storm passed. (The 'kids'
working there let us bring our loaded bikes into the establishment, I plugged my cell-phone charger in a conveniently located wall outlet and used the table as a postcard writing surface. Now if only they did laundry!) The wet grounds have rendered our planned camping site more appropriate for kayaking so we have taken a motel again. (We had one last night in Taber because of frost conditions. The day before that in Pincher Creek there was snow. Of late the Old Testament has nothing
on Alberta weather!)
Two weeks into this adventure and I am in good spirits and no worse for the wear. We have covered 1450 km in 13 riding days and the Prairies will see our daily average go up.
Maurice/Tug/Papa
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Good travelling in such challenging weather conditions!
ReplyDeleteYou will not recognize Nova Scotia when you return. It is now a bright orange-as a result of the provincial election held yesterday.
Take time to smell the prairie flowers and do be careful on those roads.
Love, C
Dad,
ReplyDeleteI wonder what you'll look back on with the most fondness/awe: climbing and descending the Rockies, riding straight on the prairies (with the wind in your face and then at your backs), or the rocks and lakes of northern Ontario soon to come... We are following your progress with enthusiasm. Maya has drawn a picture of you on your adventure, with this dictated caption, "Papa is just knowing that it is later outside and he's about to go into his tent which he zippers. He's going and going on the mountains and he won't stop until he gets to our house." We anticipate your arrival, of course, but wish mainly for your safe enjoyment of these inspiring days on the road...
Love,
Steve