Lethbridge, Alberta to Regina, Saskatchewan

Motorrad Girls

We awoke to wind but no rain, yippee! The skys were threatening so on with the rain gear and cold enough for electrics again. As we got out on the road you could see the horizon for 360 dgrees, it was amazing how flat it was. But there is something so striking about the countryside in Alberta and Saskatchewan, it goes for as far as the eye can see and is all planted or in some stage of harvest. Farms are 1000's of acres. Alberta has the cattle but Saskatchewan has the grains and corn galore. A little town of Taber had signs up saying world tastiest corn and a corn tasting contest. The roads we were on today were flat, wide, kinda of freeway like, in excllent condition with perfectly manicured shoulders. Hm, crossed my mind, how could all roads in Canada be mown on the same day. I know strange thoughts, but even as beautiful as the countryside was, it got very boring, strange that we looked forward to road repair zones just for some change. Always a little confusing to get used to kilometers, thank goodness our speedometer are little conversion charts. Top speeds on these roads is 110km so about 65mph. We had lunch in the little town of Herbert. It was classic, restaurant in an old gas station, we walked in, there was a long table of 20+ senior men drinking coffee, shooting the breeze on the other side was a long table with 6 senior women having coffee and chatting. It was obvious when we walked in we created quite the stir. We sat at the table with the ladies and chatted for awhile, it was fun. We have noticed the Canadians are so friendly, where ever we go they are so helpful. We pushed on, Sue found a great cut around Medicine Hat so we missed rush hour traffic there and eventually rolled into Regina. Found the hotel easily and checked in. Probably 100 bikes here so far. The official registration doesn't open until noon Thursday. The excitement has started though. Lots of questions, wondering how they are going to start us off Friday morning. All we know is a 5am shotgun start. The parking is underground with one exit on an incline that opens when a vehicle approaches, hmm, stay tuned to that chaos. Hoping we can move our bikes out onto the street before we take off. We'll see........these are the little details that get the adrenalin pumping.