Day 19 & 20, June 13 & 14, Medicine Hat

This is a catch up entry from yesterday and today.


The only way to describe Alberta is big! There is a long highway with a wide shoulder, a big sky with everchanging cloud formations, a big wind that is constantly blowing (sometimes with us fortunately), big farms, and big hearts (we have had a lot of friendly toots along the way).


Yesterday we sadly left Chris and Terry and started to fly along to Lethbridge which we reached in record time! By lunch we were in Taber and decided to make our record breaking distance of 137.4 km by continuing to Grassy Lake municipal park. We quickly erected our tents as the forecast was for thundershowers and a dark cloud was looming behind us. Luckily for us the wind suddenly calmed and the warm sun shone for our dinner hour. However, the ever present wind came up and chased us to our tents once again.


Unfortunately this morning we awoke to heavy rain and locked bathrooms! They're not early birds here, unlike us. Before we headed out the rain stopped and skies cleared momentarily. We had a northwest wind on our shoulder all the way to Seven Persons where we stopped to purchase and taste various goodies at the Premium Sausage Co. As happens in Victoria the wind shifted during our brief lunch break. Now it was in our face all the way to Medicine Hat. Adele and I realized the full impact of a semi trailer and wind working together.....we were blown about!

We are looking forward to a relaxing evening except for Jim and I, the cooks!

Yours in passing, Yvonne

P.S. I want to say hi to Lindsay, Nathan, and Benji who are following our progress from Toronto.