Off to Calgary!!

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Way back in January, even before I went to Panama, I ordered tickets for the final two performances of the Calgary Stampede in July. There was to be a new format-- an invitation only of the top rodeo hands in the US and Canada. We wanted to say "We were there".
So after retrieving the tickets from our safety deposit box along with my passport (complete with ugly picture) and Mont's birth certificate, we battened down the hatches on our not -too- trusty '99 Ford pickup (it was having intermittent bouts of clutch problems that Mont hoped his mechanic had fixed), loaded the popup camper with last minute items, and left Wednesday morning July 12. Our first stop was the Missouri River Breaks campground, 333 miles from home.
It was horribly hot when we pulled in. No wind. Leaves hung down. Our little thermometer in the camper bed showed over 110. (I stopped looking at that point). There are no hookups, of course, since this is primarily an access point for river rafters. Toilets are as deluxe an accomodation as we need anyway. And ,if I sat still with no clothes on, I could stand the heat. The sweat dripping off my nose, however, did interfere with me working the Sudoku puzzles.
At 6 PM a strong wind hit from the north. A short burst of hard rain and the squall was over. The air cooled down and a nice fresh breeze blew for the rest of the night.
I took the picture the next morning when it had cooled down.

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Photos

camped on the Missouri
We try to camp within earshot of another camper when there are so few folks around. Just us and them but that other camper could have been a serial killer for all we knew. But there was a BLM employee in a tent over by the toilets. I didn't take that scenic shot.

Comments

[Paul]

Truck
It must have made the trip ok