We woke around 5.00am to get a good start and try and miss the traffic out of Calgary. Basia and Leszek were both already up cooking us breakfast and making sandwiches for our lunch. This was so great I can't express how happy I was at this sight. Again we were fed amazing pancakes and sandwich meats and fruit, fantastic.
Leszeks' brother in law had given us a bike route out of Calgary so that we wouldn't have to go on the highways. The route was perfect and we were flying out of Calgary. The mornings ride went very well and we were at our lunch destination at 11.30, which was in great time. We had lunch in a small town called Beiseker. We settled down in a little picnic spot and devoured the sandwiches Leszek had made for us, it would be great to have sandwiches like that everyday. I decided as we still had plenty of time to phone home and speak to my parents for an hour and Agnes had a sleep. By the time we were ready to hit the road again we had taken 3 hours for lunch, whoops.
The rest of the ride was only 60ishkm so we thought we would be there in no time but how wrong we were. The second part of the day was a nightmare as there was a headwind and roadworks for a stretch of 20km. This stretch must have taken 2 hours as the road surface had been ripped off for the 20km and it was up and down hills.
We finally arrived in Drumheller at around 7ish very tired and very sun burnt. Even setting off at 7.00am wasn't early enough to miss the afternoon heat. Also though we won't always have as crazy roads and winds to deal with I hope.
We found a great place for a burger before we went to the campsite as we just had to eat. I ordered a double burger thinking it would be just the right size but it was huge. I managed it all and we both decided that it was they were the greatest burgers of all time. After the greatest burgers of all time were sunk we set up camp for the night. We are officially in mosquito country now, Agnes is getting bitten everywhere. I'm to busy with my hay fever to pestered with them.
We got talking to a couple at the campsite who were travelling across Canada with their kids in a camper van. As it turned out they have cycled across Canada a couple of years ago so they invited us to the van for a spot of wine followed by a dabble of whiskey. Their names are Cory and Jim and we enjoyed our drinks and chat a lot. Before we went to bed they gave us 20 dollars to go to the museum of paleontology in Drumheller before we left the next day. Drumheller is an old coal mining town now living off tourism and the fact that lots of dinosaur remains have been found in the area. The museum is meant to be well worth a visit.
Leszeks' brother in law had given us a bike route out of Calgary so that we wouldn't have to go on the highways. The route was perfect and we were flying out of Calgary. The mornings ride went very well and we were at our lunch destination at 11.30, which was in great time. We had lunch in a small town called Beiseker. We settled down in a little picnic spot and devoured the sandwiches Leszek had made for us, it would be great to have sandwiches like that everyday. I decided as we still had plenty of time to phone home and speak to my parents for an hour and Agnes had a sleep. By the time we were ready to hit the road again we had taken 3 hours for lunch, whoops.
The rest of the ride was only 60ishkm so we thought we would be there in no time but how wrong we were. The second part of the day was a nightmare as there was a headwind and roadworks for a stretch of 20km. This stretch must have taken 2 hours as the road surface had been ripped off for the 20km and it was up and down hills.
We finally arrived in Drumheller at around 7ish very tired and very sun burnt. Even setting off at 7.00am wasn't early enough to miss the afternoon heat. Also though we won't always have as crazy roads and winds to deal with I hope.
We found a great place for a burger before we went to the campsite as we just had to eat. I ordered a double burger thinking it would be just the right size but it was huge. I managed it all and we both decided that it was they were the greatest burgers of all time. After the greatest burgers of all time were sunk we set up camp for the night. We are officially in mosquito country now, Agnes is getting bitten everywhere. I'm to busy with my hay fever to pestered with them.
We got talking to a couple at the campsite who were travelling across Canada with their kids in a camper van. As it turned out they have cycled across Canada a couple of years ago so they invited us to the van for a spot of wine followed by a dabble of whiskey. Their names are Cory and Jim and we enjoyed our drinks and chat a lot. Before we went to bed they gave us 20 dollars to go to the museum of paleontology in Drumheller before we left the next day. Drumheller is an old coal mining town now living off tourism and the fact that lots of dinosaur remains have been found in the area. The museum is meant to be well worth a visit.
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