Spring 1997 - Cincinnati to Yukon
Journals - 12 June 1997
Day 73 - Stony Plain, Alberta
12 June 1997 (good tail winds in morning; overcast and pleasant; some
nasty bouts of rain; mileage = 67.5) -- X - Roy's dog, Sally, was confused
by us and the tent and barked if we made a tiny sound. So I didn't get the
super restful sleep I'd hoped for. When we were leaving, we found the
promised "good" H2O and I saw stuff in it. Like an idiot, I took a small
sip. It was horrible and made me not drink any more H2O almost all day.
This was bad. (Also, we didn't really get access to any.) We rode well into
Edmonton with a tail wind and hit a K-mart for some stuff (hat for A and
mothballs -- bears don't like 'em). We stopped in a big, but lame, bike
shop -- Monty Cyclery-like. We then stopped at a camping store where I
bought some dog-be-gone hoping it would work as bear-be-gone. The guys were
nice, took an interest and gave us a thermometer, compass, key chain. Cool.
We then hit CAA/AAA for a new bunch of maps. Then to bike shops in their
Clifton-like University district. We got an old Cat-eye Vectra for $20.
That took quite some negotiating! April then checked out a cat store to see
how the Canadians did it. We then found a Baskin-Robbins! Wow!
Unfortunately, we were compelled to eat at the Subway next door. Subway is
a BAD deal. I could eat 6 feet of sandwiches before getting full. Calories
per $ is terrible. B&R was good, of course. When riding out, we met a
serious-seeming biker who tried to send us out of town the best way. We
were on the freeway, heading out of town and the sky looked real dark and
bad news-like. We needed H2O and rest and the freeway is bad for this. We
got off and rode through a town. We stopped at SafeWay and I bought
expensive H2O, including 1 bottle to replace the one that touched the foul
H2O this morning. When we left, the rain got real serious and about 5 miles
later we pulled into a $10 campsite and put up the tent in the rain.
We did have FINE showers and the rain stopped a little while after we got
the tent up. (We stopped it actually.)
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