Well I survived the camping weekend. In all honesty it wasn’t that bad. I left Calgary a little later than I wanted as I had really hoped to avoid some of the “weekender” traffic. No such luck. Actually There was a huge thunder storm bearing down on highway #2 North of Calgary. Right at about Airdre the skies opened up and the rain came, then the hail. Golf ball sized hail. Luckily it wasn’t the really hard kind of hail that dents the crap out of everything but the kind that makes a lot of noise but no damage. It was one of those storms that whipped in and out in a matter of a few minutes. Over all the storm wasn’t that bad but it did leave a crap load of water and ice on the road and spawned a bunch of tornado watches for the area.
The traffic on the #2 got backed up a little bit and I didn’t get to the campground until just after 6:00. As you can see we got a primo location right by the porta-potty. Luckily it didn’t smell.
The kids pretty much sorted themselves out in terms of sleeping arrangements and no drama. All in all a good time was had by all. We managed to visit the Royal Tyrell as well as Horseshoe Canyon.
On another note I was down by the A&W last week on a Wednesday and there were a bunch of vintage cars there. One of them actually came over and flagged me down. They talked me into coming over and have a look as well as park the Westy in with them. Since I really didn’t have anything else going on I stayed for a bit and popped the top. I was amazed at how many random people came over to have a look and check out the Westy… here are a few pictures.
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