DAY 11, Wednesday, July 12
I think I had a fairly decent sleep last night, finally. Got up at 5 and packed up. Breakfast at 6. We are learning some interesting concoctions to go with our gruel. Like peanut butter and yogurt mixed in with it, along with banana. I find it hard to eat such a big breakfast so early in the day, but I know that I have to, so force it down.
We had a bus take us to the otherside of CALGARY..had we not, I'm sure we would still be battling the traffic to get out of the city. We set off from 22 Street at around 8:15 and our destination was Brooks. The highways in Alberta are super. Very wide shoulders and great pavement. The traffic seem to give us a wide berth and are most considerate, especially the truckers...quite the contrast from our experiences in British Columbia.
This morning it doesn't long to get away from development and we are in the country. The road is straight and you can see it up ahead for miles and miles. The Lord has blessed us with a west wind! We move along at a great pace of 32 kpm for what seems like forever. The fields are a lovely colour with canola in bloom, but the thing I enjoyed the most was the lovely smell of clover...it was so sweet and pleasant smelling and it followed us the entire trip. Today was a long ride, 174.45 km and at times the wind shifted and was in our face, but not too bad. There are no houses along the #1 highway, and after a while you get quite bored of seeing "nothing". Bob did get a lovely picture of an old farm shed, in the middle of a canola field, surrounded by green grass on the perimeter and the blue sky and white clouds. Quite unique.
The roadies provided lunch at about the 90 km. It is always good and I usually eat too much, which makes it hard to get going once again.
I ended up riding without Bob as he had stopped to take some pictures and then he busted a spoke, so had to do makeshift repairs. I did meet up with him at the rest stop. He has since had the spoke replaced once we arrived at Victory church where we are staying, in Brooks, Alberta. We arrived here shortly after 4 having joined a pack of 8 other riders and we did the final 25 km at 34 kph. The church is big and we all race to claim a sleeping spot. We found a small room but gave it to Don and Louise and we moved into the Board Room with John and Sandy.
For my church family at St. Luke's, you may remember Don and Louise as they came to church one Sunday when they were visiting us. I first met them when we lived in Saskatoon and Don was the priest at Holy Trinity, the church we attended.
I got an e mail from Angela to say my my glasses were ready and she wanted
to know where to send them. That is a problem because I don't know how long it will take to get here and should they arrive after we have moved on then that would be a problem. Not to mention that it cost $38 to purolate them back and I don't want to have that expense again. I also just purchased a pair of sunglasses for $40. This eye care has be costly!
We had a bus take us to the otherside of CALGARY..had we not, I'm sure we would still be battling the traffic to get out of the city. We set off from 22 Street at around 8:15 and our destination was Brooks. The highways in Alberta are super. Very wide shoulders and great pavement. The traffic seem to give us a wide berth and are most considerate, especially the truckers...quite the contrast from our experiences in British Columbia.
This morning it doesn't long to get away from development and we are in the country. The road is straight and you can see it up ahead for miles and miles. The Lord has blessed us with a west wind! We move along at a great pace of 32 kpm for what seems like forever. The fields are a lovely colour with canola in bloom, but the thing I enjoyed the most was the lovely smell of clover...it was so sweet and pleasant smelling and it followed us the entire trip. Today was a long ride, 174.45 km and at times the wind shifted and was in our face, but not too bad. There are no houses along the #1 highway, and after a while you get quite bored of seeing "nothing". Bob did get a lovely picture of an old farm shed, in the middle of a canola field, surrounded by green grass on the perimeter and the blue sky and white clouds. Quite unique.
The roadies provided lunch at about the 90 km. It is always good and I usually eat too much, which makes it hard to get going once again.
I ended up riding without Bob as he had stopped to take some pictures and then he busted a spoke, so had to do makeshift repairs. I did meet up with him at the rest stop. He has since had the spoke replaced once we arrived at Victory church where we are staying, in Brooks, Alberta. We arrived here shortly after 4 having joined a pack of 8 other riders and we did the final 25 km at 34 kph. The church is big and we all race to claim a sleeping spot. We found a small room but gave it to Don and Louise and we moved into the Board Room with John and Sandy.
For my church family at St. Luke's, you may remember Don and Louise as they came to church one Sunday when they were visiting us. I first met them when we lived in Saskatoon and Don was the priest at Holy Trinity, the church we attended.
I got an e mail from Angela to say my my glasses were ready and she wanted
to know where to send them. That is a problem because I don't know how long it will take to get here and should they arrive after we have moved on then that would be a problem. Not to mention that it cost $38 to purolate them back and I don't want to have that expense again. I also just purchased a pair of sunglasses for $40. This eye care has be costly!
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