Monday

Sould not post today as the park did not have wifi. It also didn't have water or sewer or cable tv, nor did it have clean washrooms. I'm not a picky guy, but there shouldn't be dirt from last summer. The parking stalls were supposed to be gravel, well ours had 3 little stones on it, LOL. The roads in the park [advertised as gravel] were a step above a cow path. Will definitely not stay there again. Oh yeh, where is it - Balzac, Alberta, just out of Airdrie. Why stay there you may ask, well,we made it all the way from Dillon & by the time we got there it was getting dark. In the past we stayed there & it was not great, but it is the only handy place around there. Well there is new management, some nice arabic people. If you want all the sordid details, just ask, there is more. We had a great day, it started out on the cool side, but warmed as the day wore on. Although not hot, it was pleasant enough, although the wind blew most of the day. When you are driving a billboard down the road, that creates some challenges. We left Dillon on hwy 41 and got up to the interstate where we could bypass the dreaded Elk Park Pass. It gave us some new scenery through something like the bitterroot mountains where we joined up with the I-15. Made good time and were at the border shortly after noon. Low and behold there was no line up so into the duty free where we left with a 1,74 litre of scotch. Pretty much pulled up to the gate and were served by a very courteous young fellow, made me proud to be a Canadian, being treated like a regular person instead of a criminal. Almost broke in to O'Canada there. I must have been starved for male conversation as he almost had to hurry us along from the border crossing. LOL Drove on past several very nice rv parks in Lethbridge, Ft MacLeod, etc. Oh; one in Nanton where they don't allow rv's with slides. I'm thinking they should maybe get a bit of a update on what rv's look like since 1985, LOL. Went through cowtown at the end of their rush hour, it was still like GP rush hour on steroids. We wanted to position ourselves to make it home the next day while allowing a visit with mother in E town. Then the memorable rv park in beautiful downtown Balzac. By this time the wind was blowing like 'Ole Billy' and had a nasty chill to it, although it didn't freeze. Probably was a half a degree above freezing. By now it the 32C temps of AJ on Friday are a distant memory.