mile 9924

Yesterday morning we left Waterton Lakes as the sun was heating up the air, indicating that it would be another hot one.  We had quickly packed our stuff and were on the road relatively early, heading East on Hwy 5 to Lethbridge to catch Hwy 3 for the junction to the Trans Canada Hwy 1 in Medicine Hat.  Here in Medicine Hat we made a stop at the world’s largest Tepee , before continuing further East.  The amazing thing was, that since we left Waterton Lakes and turned the bike East on Hwy 5 the view never changed, as with the mountain range in our back we had open and wide prairie wherever the eye would turn.  There was only open grassland, some potato, some wheat fields, horses, deer, and cattle, and this didn’t change for the next 400 miles or the whole day.  As a guy told us this morning, “take Saskatchewan and fold it over Alberta, and you will not miss a thing”, and that is certainly true for this Southern portion of the provinces.  Anyway, we survived the monotony and reached Moose jaw early evening to call it the day.

World's Largest Tepee, Medicine Hat, AB