Thursday, June 28, 2007

Day 21: Drumheller to Youngstown 129km

After another great day off we got up early at around 5.00am and hit the road by around 7.00am, which was fairly good going. The prairies aren't completely flat yet but the landscape isn't changing much and today's ride was quite boring. We made it to a town called Hanna by 12ish and sat down for lunch and then went to a little greasy spoon for a cup of tea. We didn't take too long for lunch this time but by the time we were ready to set off it was very hot.
We arrived in the very small town of Youngstown at around 4.00pm. From first impressions I thought we were going to have to carry on riding and find another town. It is a very small town with a population of 170 and a lot of very run down houses and an old freaky looking hotel.
We found the village store and after that we were very glad we stayed. The lady running the store Greta was a legend and also Betty her friend who was in there. Greta told us where the campsite was and took our laundry from us to take to her house and bring it back to us later. Betty drove us to her house so that we could use the shower as the campsite didn't have any showers. After this we set up the tent and trotted along to the restaurant, which was run by a very nice Chinese couple as are most restaurants in small towns in Canada. We wolfed down our food and sat around for a while as back at the campsite we would be getting eaten by the mosquito's. When we got back to the tent Greta came round with our laundry washed and folded up smelling like a summers day. this was such a great help and we were so thankful to Greta and Betty. Greta said to us that they might all look like a bunch of hicks but they are a good bunch and that they were.

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