Saturday

Well every time I look at the weather for the route home it changes, never for the better.  It seems old man winter is having fun up in northern Alberta.  It was supposed to rain here, but never did, instead the sun shone and it was shirt sleeve weather.
 

   We went out to a museum here in Ogden.  Something I did not know was that John Browning raised his family here.  The family donated a car collection to the local museum & they had some nice ones.  This old Lincoln was owned by a movie star.

   Browning of course made his name as a gunsmith a tradition his sons carried on.  Probably the most well known firearm was the lever action rifle, often referred to as the rifle that won the west.  Although he sold the patent to Winchester who made most of the famous rifles, the museum had some of his original pieces on display.

  The third part of the museum is a celebration of the railway heritage that was such an important part of the area history.  The golden spike uniting east & west was driven around here.  There was a huge trestle built to span the great salt lake at one time.  Some pretty neat stuff.

  Still does not look like departure date tomorrow, in fact it's starting to look like: run up to Helena on Tuesday, then up to Red Deer on Wednesday, then on Thursday stop to see mom in Edmonton and then on home to GP.  We'll see whether there are any more surprises in store for us weather-wise though.