Day 5 Sept 13, 2020

We went thru Brooks and then took several different roads to get us to John & Cindy's ranch at Consort, AB (Cross Bar Ranch) over a 100 year ranch. Lots of history there. John took us for a trail ride in the pickup truck to see the buffalo, etc

                                            Mike & Molly

Had supper with all the family then played cribbage till bed time.  

Day 6 Sept 14, 2020

After a huge breakfast we headed NW towards Castor.  Went to Gooseberry Lake (soda lake) as I had not been there since the 80's when the UMCI had a campout there and a skunk walked thru the campsite while we were all around the camp fire.  No smelly LOL

We toured thru Coronation as I had never been there before.

Afterwards we headed to Castor to have lunch with Jim & Julie before heading for home. Home about 4:340 PM

Since the Covid was in effect we were not able to head south this summer so this was our second few days of holidays.  Hopefully next year we will all be back to normal.

We put on 1050 KM (650 miles) Weather started out perfect and then deteriorated on  the weekend.

Glad we were in the car. 

 Day 1 Sept 9, 2020

We started our day off by meeting up with Bruce, Cindy, Louis & Nita at Sherry's in Lacombe for lunch.  Had a good visit.  Then Gerry & I headed for Red Deer to pickup some wire, etc.  Went to Walmart and no we did not wear a mask to get in.  It is against my civil rights.  Afterwards we headed for a ride and stopped at the Markerville Museum for some pictures.

Day 2 Sept 10, 2020

It was a super nice day so we headed for Cochrane to see Peter & Nellie for a good two hour visit.  Then we kind of took the back way back to Lacombe for bike nite.

Day 3 Sept 11, 2020

On our way to Lethbridge we stopped at Marg's place in Kirkcaldy for an awesome lunch of grilled ham & cheese sandwiches.  Great visit.

Headed to Lethbridge and stopped at Humpty's for a ice cream float & to visit with Bob & Cathy. Afterwards we headed for Jim & Patty's house for a couple of nights.  We then went to the casino for supper with them & Jim & Judy Chow.

On Saturday morning Jim, Patty, Gerry & I met up with Harvey & Gloria for breakfast. 

 Back to the King's to get ready to go to Don Norrie's memorial that was held down at Popson Park.

The weather was so unsettled for us to be on the bike that far from home, this time of the year.

Later we were back to the casino for supper with Jim, Judy, Patty & Jim.

Day 4 Sept. 13, 2020

We met up with the UMCI group (9) for breakfast at Smitty's before we headed north east.

Aug 1, 2020

After a hugh breakfast we headed SE towards home.  Made one stop in Whitecourt for fuel & pit stop.  Went home via Bentley as we did a late day meal at the Monkey Top before going home as the fridge is pretty empty.  We managed to put on 1860 KM (1156 Miles).  It was the first time I had been to the Peace River country for at least 50 years. It was an awesome trip.

July 31, 2020

Got up bright & early before the restaurant at the motel opens, so we packed up and headed for McDonald's on the other side of the river.  After breakfast we headed west towards Dawson Creek. On the way there we crossed the Dunvegan Suspension Bridge.  Started up the Alaska highway to the Kiskatinaw bridge at mile 21.  This is a bridge that Gerry used to travel on back in the 70's when he was truckin the Alaska Highway.
Back to Dawson to the Dairy Queen for lunch.  After lunch we headed to Fox Creek by missing Grande Prairie, as they now have a ring road.
Into Fox Creek by 6 PM and got checked into the Super 8 Motel.  Fox Creek has gone from over 10,000 people, when the oil boom was going, down now to a couple hundred people left.

July 30, 2020

We woke up to lots of water every where as it rained during the night.  Had breakfast at motel and then headed NW towards Peace River.
We stopped at a resort on Lesser Slave Lake to take pictures and to put our hands in the water.  We continued on to Peace River and the weather is now hot & sunny.  Went to 12' Davis's grave site before heading into down town Peace River.  Then we went site seeing up to Sagitawa look out and got awesome pictures of the Peace & Smokey where they join.  Also went to park across the street from our motel and got to see the statue of 12' Davis.  Had a better supper at the motel restaurant than we did in Red Deer at the Ranch a couple of weeks ago.
The trike is such a treat in these hilly crooked roads that go every where and would not have wanted to tackle this area on two wheels.