CANWEST 2022

      On our last night in Okotoks, we had our first campfire.     Earlier we’d bought some sausages from the British Banger Company in town and we cooked them on the fire.  The Lincolnshire sausages were yummy!  We really liked Okotoks and the Lion’s Campground.   June 8   Today we packed up camp in Okotoks and parted for Bar U Ranch, Canada’s only National Historic Site ranch, hoping to have a hay ride.  Along the way we stopped and bought some world famous jerky in Longview.  Elizabeth is not a fan. (I think Jerry makes better Jerky.  Jerry agrees.)        On the drive, we spotted what has to have a story that we don’t know.  There was a farm along the road where all the fence posts had ball caps, some in better shape than others.  No kidding there was at least a mile of them.  The picture doesn’t do justice.   At the Visitor Information Centre i...

  MAY 27   Good idea to have two credit cards.  (We do.)   We’ve had a real adventure as Costco is switching from Capital One to CIBC.  Elizabeth spent hours, really hours on the phone with CIBC over many days since January.  They wanted to send them to our house…we’re not there…we need them here!  Finally they had them couriered to a CIBC in Medicine Hat and we picked them up yesterday.  Still not right.  Mine has been sent to the house in Guelph.  Crazy.  Now there are 4 credit cards in Guelph at the house.  Amie is sending them to us…   May 27 Cycling around Weyburn.  A nice trail system.           Looks like a lighthouse but Weyburn is land locked – Huh?     These sculptures of wheat are so lovely.  Weyburn is a center for grain shipments – thus the wheat stalks all along the main drag.   Tommy Douglas   T...