Keep on Truckin!

Recorded May 28th

We pushed through Montana over 370 miles on Memorial Day May 25th. And ended up just short of USA- Canadian boarder in a quiet town called Sunburst. The tiny Lewis & Clark RV park was run by a couple from Louisiana and it seemed most of the folks in the park were from Louisiana because ever one we spoke to had the same southern down home accent. On the morning of the 26th, Billy’s Birthday, we left Montana for what we thought would be a quick 90 miles to Lightbridge, Alberta plus a side trip then on to Calgary for the night. Boy was we wrong!

Our boarder crossing at Coutts was rather uneventful, thank goodness and we were in Alberta by 11:00 AM. Our side trip to the Fort & Museum of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police turned into a royal fiasco. As we browsed around we were told by a pert older woman that at 2:00 PM they would begin a short movie on the history and accomplishments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police followed by a play. “A play?” We thought as we were the only people in the place, what ever. Well the movie was an average documentary that went on for 30 minutes. Bill slept through half of it. We would have made an escape but the pert older woman accosted us with pleasantries and announced that the play was starting! It was sadly awful! It just went on and on with the sorriest bunch of players you will ever see. By the time we left we were in the middle of rush hour traffic & we did not get to our campground destination until after 5:00 PM. It was Bills Birthday and I put together the chili dinner I had planned for the 4 of us by about 7:00 PM. Linda was so sweet that she made him cupcakes. All the kids called to wish him happy birthday so the day was saved!

On the 27th of May we all did some sight seeing around Calgary. We started out at the Calgary Tower where we were able to get some terrific pictures of the city. It stands as tall as all the other down town high-rises. We could see the Rocky’ Mountain Range in the distance where we would be headed the next day. It has a glass bottom area which was a bit weird walking out onto.

Our next stop was Heritage Park which has grown exponentially since Bill & I were there in the early 90”s with Brad. There are at least twice as many restored buildings & they have added a Fun Zone. But the best addition is the newly opened Gasoline Ally. Just open one month it houses dozens of restored cars, trucks, fire engines, filling station & drive-in movie memorabilia plus gobs more…even a 1959 travel trailer! You could spend a whole day there!

From Heritage Park we went looking for pizza with no luck. Bill & Linda M. continued on to the Olympic Park, home to the 1988 Olympic Games. The Canadian Olympic team is in training there now. Bill was disappointed not to be able to ride the Luge. Billy & I returned home to tend to our lonely little Lindsey who by the way is having a great trip and become quite accustomed of the nearly daily driving by curling up on my lap for most of the trip. No more carsick doggie!