Mile 12075

 After another two days in and around Edmonton, AB and Leduc, AB, with a lot of bicycling, tasting local brews, and doing nothing except for the obligatory laundry and some maintenance and repairs, it is now time to move on.  

Telford Lake Trail, Leduc, AB

The Wisdom Stone, 

"Allow the wisdom of a billion years to guide you to the answers you seek"

Harry Beauchamp, Artist statement 2013

 We pack our stuff with blue skies above our heads and make a run to the Cabela's / Bass Pro Shop to refill our stock on gas cartridges and then find our way via Rt-216 onto to the TCH and from there to Hwy-43.  This brings us through fields of Rape and other stuff into the rolling hills of forests as we move further West to Whitecourt, AB.  

Rolling hill in western Alberta, Smokey River crossing

 Northwest of Fox Creek, AB the landscape turns back to more prairie as we near Grande Prairie, AB.  This town has changed a lot since we had our bike here repaired in 2014.  It seems the town has doubled in size, but definitely a lot of new industries and workshops catering the pipeline and oil industry have settled down here.  We drive a little around to explore the "new" town, and then head South to our campsite for tonight.

And a Happy Birthday to my friend Jimmy, cheers to your health and happiness!

"The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada."  -  T.E. Hulme, English critic and poet, aesthetic philosopher and the father of imagism, 1883-1917