Day 29 5/27/15
On the road again at 9:30. We crossed the Continental Divide
again (West to East) at Crowsnest Pass and entered Alberta.
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| On the Continental Divide in Alberta |
At 11am we stopped to see the Frank Slide – a 1903 landslide
that killed about 90 residents of the coalmining town of Frank, AB. The
interpretive center at the site is first rate and we passed a couple of hours
viewing presentations and looking at the exhibits.
Leaving Frank, we turned North on Canada 22 to follow the
Alberta Cowboy Trail. We stopped for
lunch at a campground/picnic area along the Oldman River and met a wandering
Fly fisherman from Calgary and we talked for an hour about fishing, computers,
places to see, camping, government and all manner of stuff.
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| Frank Slide |
About 2:30 we got back on the road seeing lots of cattle but
nary a cowboy in sight. As we neared Longview, AB, we began to see oil wells (a
first for us in Canada.)
We arrived in Black Diamond at the Lions Club Campground at
3:45 and, after setting up the rig, walked to the only Hotel in town (about ½
mile) for an early dinner. Local beers
and Buffalo wings were our choice and it was all excellent.
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| Indoor Curling Arena! |
We left to a chorus of thunder and lightning, then rain,
then hail and decided that we just had to duck into the Bistro on Main for a
dessert of warm apple pie with ice cream served up by our tiny Korean waitress who
was almost always busy telling the giant Korean cook what to do.
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| Waiting for the Wings |
When we left the bistro, the rain picked up again so we
darted into a drug store to buy a couple of plastic ponchos but they didn’t
have them. We did convince the nice
checkout girl to give us a couple of plastic shopping bags to cover our heads.
What a sight!
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| Gotta love craft beer! |
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