After a harried border crossing, we quickly learned that Alberta has three things:
1) an appalling amount of flies - so many that when climbing hills I looked down and my arm was covered with over 30 small black flies. Gross
2) an interesting system for road maintenance…. or a lack of a system. There are so many little holes and cracks everywhere that my forearms were throbbing at the bottom of each hill. My butt wasn’t a huge fan either.
3) number 3 trumps all of the above - the views! Oh mylanta! Riding through Alberta was absolutely incredible. The sharp rigid mountains surrounding us were absolutely incredible. Trying my hardest to hold true to some great advice I received before the trip - “try to enjoy most of it in a way that’s not through a camera lense!”
After lunch, we started to leave the pretty rocky mountain area. Once it got real flat showing endless grass fields, it kind of hit me that for the next 3000(ish) miles this is reality. Here’s to 5 weeks of rolling grass fields!
Reid almost got hit by a car on the highway for probably the 100th time on this trip. Someday he’ll learn to look before veering literally all the way to the yellow line.
As we rolled into Cardston I noticed how freaking wide the roads are! My theory is that Canada is so big that it has so much extra land space so as a result the streets are literally a mile wide. I’m not complaining - it was a blast sailing through the wide streets!
xoxo
JT
Lightning round: Something you learned today
Jacob - on bigger roads it’s important to communicate even louder to get the message across & it’s important to not let my thought sink in the pooper because it’s so easy to get down out here
Jade - cows in Alberta are easy to herd with high pitch moo sounds
Webster - Canadians declared war on the Germans ten days into WWII
Oliver - downhill doesn’t mean downhill
Wade - Canada produced over half the vehicles for the allies during WWII
Mary Elmore - I like sour mike & ikes
1) an appalling amount of flies - so many that when climbing hills I looked down and my arm was covered with over 30 small black flies. Gross
2) an interesting system for road maintenance…. or a lack of a system. There are so many little holes and cracks everywhere that my forearms were throbbing at the bottom of each hill. My butt wasn’t a huge fan either.
3) number 3 trumps all of the above - the views! Oh mylanta! Riding through Alberta was absolutely incredible. The sharp rigid mountains surrounding us were absolutely incredible. Trying my hardest to hold true to some great advice I received before the trip - “try to enjoy most of it in a way that’s not through a camera lense!”
After lunch, we started to leave the pretty rocky mountain area. Once it got real flat showing endless grass fields, it kind of hit me that for the next 3000(ish) miles this is reality. Here’s to 5 weeks of rolling grass fields!
Reid almost got hit by a car on the highway for probably the 100th time on this trip. Someday he’ll learn to look before veering literally all the way to the yellow line.
As we rolled into Cardston I noticed how freaking wide the roads are! My theory is that Canada is so big that it has so much extra land space so as a result the streets are literally a mile wide. I’m not complaining - it was a blast sailing through the wide streets!
xoxo
JT
Lightning round: Something you learned today
Jacob - on bigger roads it’s important to communicate even louder to get the message across & it’s important to not let my thought sink in the pooper because it’s so easy to get down out here
Jade - cows in Alberta are easy to herd with high pitch moo sounds
Webster - Canadians declared war on the Germans ten days into WWII
Oliver - downhill doesn’t mean downhill
Wade - Canada produced over half the vehicles for the allies during WWII
Mary Elmore - I like sour mike & ikes
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