Day 4: Heads or Tails

I learned something important today. The wind can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. All you have to do is flip a coin: heads or tails. I think part of what made my long haul into Lethbridge so enjoyable was either a slight tail wind or an absence of wind altogether. Today on the other hand had me cursing by the end of the day the wind was so bad.

Amazingly, after the horrid weather of yesterday, today was otherwise quite nice. When I first woke up around 6, it was still only 9 degrees so I rolled over for another hour. By the time I got on the road around 8 it was shaping up to be a half decent day and the sun even came out around 10. Now, I'm sitting in a back yard just outside of Irvine AB and it's a calm 20 degree evening. I was lucky enough to meet a wonderful woman named Marcy who fed me and let me setup my tent in her yard: quite fortuitous considering that there are no campsites for miles in all directions. We had a great chat about this and that and now I'm starting to wind down.

Of course the road today was not such a nice story. I only traveled around 95km today but it took me nearly 5 hours. Whereas my usual average speed is around 25kph, today was down near 20kph since I was fighting a strong head wind nearly the whole way along.

But you take the good with the bad. Today was also my last day with Sheriff escort so thank you to Jeff and Shaun and the entire detachment for that matter. It was great to have the support through Alberta. The upside to losing my slow-speed car chase is that tomorrow I hit Saskatchewan!!

I'm just hoping that this continued forcast of rain ends up being wrong. I mean, meteorologists are wrong all the time anyway, right? Why can't one of those times be now?