It was another relatively boring day traveling the same
roads we had seen before. This area is
much more populated than we have traveled in Canada. Edmonton, Calgary, and Lethbridge are big
cities. Calgary may compare to
Charlotte. Danny happened to be driving
when we got to Calgary. I thought he was
going to have a panic attack before we got around Calgary on the bypass. He also drove into Lethbridge.
Most of the area we traveled today is agricultural. We saw huge fields of barley then in a
distance would be a grove of trees. In
that grove of trees would be the house and buildings associated with the
farm. Some of them had really fancy
entrance gates at the driveway. Around
the Calgary area, there are a lot of horse farms. Calgary is a big rodeo destination and
according to a sign I saw, the home of the first indoor rodeo.
In the middle of some of the fields, with barley or wheat
growing all around it, are oil pumps where some lucky farmer struck oil.
There are a lot of long trains around here. We have seen cars stacked with two layers of
shipping containers. We saw car after
car of coal.
Tonight will be our last night in Canada. Not long after we leave Lethbridge, Alberta,
we will cross the border and head for Glacier National Park. It will be good to be in the USA where the
money does not look like monopoly money and where distance is measured in
miles.
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| Just because I thought the clouds were pretty today. Just as we finished getting everything into the hotel, it started thundering and lightening and the bottom fell out. It poured buckets for about an hour. Maybe that took some of the construction dust off the car. |
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| One of many oil pumps we saw today. |
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| Where the trees are will be the house and other farm buildings. |
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| When I see trains, I think of Lanie and Shawn. Lanie used to love trains. We once drove from Madison to Ridgeway so she could watch the train as we were near the tracks. Now Shawn is the one who loves trains. We saw some really long trains. |
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