Day 33. Friday. Another fabulous day of riding. There are'nt a lot of options when it comes to roads in this area so I retraced my path to Golden, BC but this time I stayed on highway 1 and went to Glacier National Park. I stopped at several road side attractions that I skipped yesterday. There is a spot called the Spiral Tunnels where in the 1920's they dug and blasted two spiral tunnels in the mountains for the railroad because it was too steep for the trains to climb out of the valley. Pretty ingenious. The road to Golden is [View Full Entry]

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Day 32. Thursday. What a ride! 370Km through the mountains. This may be heaven on earth. After scarfing down a couple slices of poppy seed loaf I pick up at the store last night I spent some time cleaning up the bike. It's amazing how dirty it gets in 10 minutes of rain. Well I suppose a car does too. Today I knew what to expect so despite the 25 degree forecast I zipped the lining back in my jacket, put on the full face and insulated gloves. I never fully understood chaps but now I understand why people wear them. [View Full Entry]

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Day 31. 11,102Km. Happy 142nd Birthday. As soon as I left the West side of Calgary I could see the mountains. I've been waiting a month for this. I like mountains. Did I mention that already? The closer I got the more excited I felt. I must have been it the mountains in the States before but it's been a long time. Being a holiday I did'nt think it was a good idea to move on but I often taken the road less traveled. Sometimes literally on this trip. I was headed for Banff by 11.00 but chose to drive right [View Full Entry]

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Day 30. Tuesday. My friends from Ontario came to pick me up this morning. They were headed to Drumheller to check out the Royal Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum and invited me along. It's about an hour and a half out of Calgary. It's a bit like a mini grand canyon in the way you are driving along fairly flat terrain when for no apparent reason there is a huge canyon stretching for miles. Apparently this is the richest dinosaur discovery area in the world. There are plenty of examples of various species. Some are completely assembled and some they have partially exposed [View Full Entry]

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Day 26. 10,793Km After tossing and turning for a while I got up at 03:30 and had the shower I skipped earlier. Not too much action in the bathrooms at that hour. I was cool overnight. The furnace has not come on for several nights but it did last night. In fact I could hear others during the night as well. I was up by 09.00 and on the road about 10.30. The plan was to meet my friends from Kitchener who were coming to Calgary to visit her cousin. Just as I was getting to the campsite they called and [View Full Entry]

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Day 28. Sunday. I could hear the rain on the roof. The forecast was for morning showers and they were right. I slept on and off till 13:00 when I got up to make a little lunch and try to upload yesterdays blog. The blog site seems to be buggy right now. I keep getting error messages or it won't let me on at all just saying "try back later". By 15:00 I'm groggy so I have a nap for a couple hours. Growing up this is what Sunday's were for. Well that and going to church but one out of [View Full Entry]

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Day 27. 10,451Km I did'nt feel like getting up today. It was drizzling all morning. I still had not decided if I was staying another day in Lloydminster or moving on. The rain did'nt help keep me there, that's for sure. I did'nt have internet either. I checked the weather for Edmonton on my phone. Hmmm, Sun. And it's only 250Km away. But it's what some might call a long weekend. Should I risk it? I check the Alberta campground catalog I got at the info centre and see a descent selection in the area. OK, I'm leaving. It was 13:30 [View Full Entry]

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Day 26. 10,149Km For the second day in a row I woke up at 4:30 and had a rough time getting back to sleep. It's quite light this far North that early. Just like it is at 10pm. I finally did fall asleep after a bit. After fueling up and getting a few groceries in Prince Albert I headed South toward Saskatoon hoping I'd find a motorcycle part dealer to get a metric mirror adapter to replace the one I damaged loading up the bike this morning. My first stop was on the edge of town at a truck stop. Unfortunately [View Full Entry]

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Day 25. 9688Km. Half way to Christmas. Somewhere along the way the street lights went horizontal again. I stayed off the Trans Canada Highway again today. No particular reason. I went North to Canora, across to Watson, up to Melford and across to Prince Albert. It was actually flatter in lower Manitoba around Winnipeg than anything I've seen since. Many towns and some country intersections have the stereotypical grain elevators we have all seen in pictures. Some have town names on them, others the farm. The rail line runs along the road or more likely the other way around and in [View Full Entry]

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Day 24. 9267Km. I just did the math and so far I'm getting 15.1 mpg or for you younger folks I'm using 18.7L/100Km. What would have been wrong with 5.35 Km per Litre? It's probably a European thing. That's about 50% more fuel than I use without the trailer. I'm moving about 13,000lbs which is probably a little less than I would do with my old trailer when it was loaded with fire wood but this one being so high it's like pushing a sheet of plywood through the air. What I'm saying is this one is more noticeable. All in [View Full Entry]

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