Sunday July 12, 2015

I woke up to day with an incredible pain in my lower back, I was suffering a little bit yesterday, but this morning it was quite severe. Ralf asked if I wanted to ask to stay another day, but I wanted to get moving. I figured with a few drugs it should be o.k.

The Galt Mine was a large coal mine in Lethbridge, it was closed in 1957.

I was surprised to discover that there was a lot of coal-mining in this area from Crowsnest Pass to Lethbridge.

We headed out to Wal-Mart on the south-side of Lethbridge to get our supplies of trail mix and granola bars. My back was hurting and I struggled to push off, but while I was cycling it wasn’t too bad.

We eventually got underway at 10:45 am. The ride was a flat, fast ride. The wind was at our back and we often were being pushed along at 25 kph. Tail winds all the way to Ontario!!

We are in the Alberta prairies – farm country, lots of potatoes, corn, wheat etc.

On the outskirts of Taber, we passed a large McCain factory – the smell of frying potatoes filled the air. We discovered later that this factory makes hash browns for the fast food industry.

We are staying in a motel tonight. We bought a heat pad for my back and hopefully I will get a good nights sleep and we can carry-on tomorrow.