Tuesday - June 26 - Medicine Hat

Getting on the Internet in Medicine Hat, Alberta, has proven to be the most difficult so far on the trip. No WiFi at the campground - I believe it's a city campground (as opposed to private). The one place in town I was told had WiFi, didn't. So here I am at Starbuck's at $7.50 / hour!

We just thought we had seen wind. Even though we are in a grove of trees, the wind still howled all night and rocked the motor-home. We survived. I caught the end of a news item last night on TV that there had been a damaging tornado somewhere in Canada. I could never tell where, but the station was in Calgary - about 150 miles NW of us.

Today it is still windy, but a lot warmer - about 65 degrees. The weather guy on TV last night said the "storm" was moving NE from us and promised a week of warm weather - at one point he said it could be close to 35 degree Celsius (95 degree Farenheit). That's too warm. But at the moment, it's very nice.

We are laying low today; laundry, grocery shopping, etc. As I mentioned earlier, we had planned to stay here for 4 nights and see some of the surrounding sights, but since that won't work, we'll leave here Thursday and try and find something up the road - towards Calgary.

The Calgary Stampede is July 6 - 9th. So we'll see if we can maneuver our schedule so that we could take it in. I think the problem will be finding a campground close enough to Calgary that isn't filled with other folks trying to attend the Stampede.

Today's photo is from the T-Rex Centre. The third shelf form the floor contains the tail bones from T-Rex. It does not include the backbone / spine - these are just the tail bones. Not sure of the length but it's got to be over 10 feet long. Impressive.