No Kms Friday;
127.0Kms Saturday
On Friday, after breakfast with Dave & Johanne Reid and Heather Reid, and a drive to last day of grade 12 for Frances Reid, we went for a walk with dogs Ruby and Sam to Lethbridge's Old Man River.

We didn't see pelicans then, but we did after our Mexican lunch. A flock were fishing as they drifted down the river and then took flight and soared overhead and back up the river. The evening included a lively Reid family reunion dinner!

On Saturday we headed out about 9am, and did quite well with distance in the first few hours out of Lethbridge and made time to take photos of the Alberta landscape near Lethbridge. Dave and Johanne met us with a picnic lunch just as a cloud burst over Fort McLeod.

We learned today that Albertans do not usually utter the word "wind" for fear of conjuring it up - oh, so that was our mistake. We now know that West to East is the way to do the Alberta section of a cross-Canada bike ride. If we hadn't known before, the thousands of wind turbines flinging their arms gaily to the West Wind has now confirmed this. The rest of the uphill, windy ride to Burmis was punctuated with kindly roadside check-ins from Dave & Johanne and we arrived at Bedside Manor about 8:30pm and then went with the Reids for dinner in Blairmore at Rum Runner Pub. The Burmis fishing lodge accommodation (Bedside Manor) was gorgeously located on a river with sweeping vistas of the surrounding valleys. There was a common, stocked cookhouse, which we were invited to use at our leisure. As it was quite late when we arrived back from our pub dinner in Blairmore, the Reid's stayed overnight in their parked camper van, with plans to leave early in the morning.

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