Suburb of Calgary, the houses just go on and on. Very stretched out city, went on for miles, hill side after hill side. Hard to tell in the picture but the middle green area is on a steep hill side.
I can’t believe we’re doing this.
At the starting gate.
Off we goooooooooo……
49.33, fastest time of the day, so far. John would go again, I would be waiting at the finish line for him. It was a quite the experience to say the least.
Drumheller Alberta badlands, driving along, nothing, nothing, then bang the badlands.
There was a nice loop drive by Drumheller just had to wait for the Bleriot Ferry to cross the river to continue the loop. We’re petty sure this is the smallest ferry we have been on, glad we didn’t have the 5th wheel.
Little Church, their motto “seats 10,000 people, 6 at a time.”
You could crawl up into his mouth. Lots of dinosaurs around town, kids were busy finding them.
Suspension Bridge this was used by the miners to get across the river to the Star Coal Mine. The original bridge was only as wide as a 2×6. It was 23mph winds plus gusts, the bridge had a pretty good sway to her.
We drove the famous 11 bridges in a 6 kilometer stretch of road. This takes you to The Last Chance Saloon, there is supposed to be bullet holes in the walls yet. They were not open at 11am so we cannot confirm this. We did not look it up but they claim this road is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most bridges to be found within the shortest distance.
Hoodoos on the outskirts of Drumheller Alberta. They are located just off the main road so it is a popular spot for people to stop.
Medalta Potteries you can do a self guided tour that is very interesting. They have some of the old equipment along many many examples of the various products they made at the plant.
Red Rock Coulees, out in the middle of nowhere is a field full of these rocks. One of those things in nature that leave you scratching your head in wonder.
Write-on-Stone Provincial Park. There are lots of hoo doos and some pictographs that you can view.
This is an information board that describes the largest pictograph you can see on the self guided tour. They had a 1 1/2 hour guided tour that takes you to others, we just didn’t time it right to do this.
Cactus in Alberta Canada, what?
The walk started with a good chance of rain, by the time we got to the turn around point the sun was pouring on the heat. Hot and dusty walk back.
Side note, sometimes it’s better to stay on course. Leaving the Write-On Park we decided to follow the Aden border crossing sign. Well, a few kilometers into it the road turned to gravel, expecting it to turn back to payment, it didn’t. 15 – 20 kilometers later we are at the border crossing, the road goes through the shed, with the agents ask us “what are we doing here”. They proceeded to tell us we had gravel for 15 more miles till we get to a highway. They were nice, maybe a little bored, we got asked a bunch of questions, least we didn’t have to wait in line to cross. Would not recommend this crossing, it was pretty dang bumpy and everything in the back of the truck got pretty dusty.
The Palmer Express 