DAY 5 - Saturday, September 21

Sorry if this is getting to you a bit late. It's been a long travel day but a good one. A most interesting sunrise as the fog set in overnight.

We weren't exactly sure where we were going to go but decided to worry about it a little later. First a visit to the archery championships. Though not the greatest venue if you wanted to see what was going on it was fascinating. Teams from around the world were competing just like in the Olympics. By the way is archery an Olympic event? It should be. It's certainly a lot better that skateboarding and break dancing. The poor sight lines were addressed by a jumbo video screen. A worthy start to our day.

The weather cleared nicely and it was a beautiful 6 hour drive west. We were buzzed by a crop dusting helicopter just for fun. I guess the days of biplanes are gone eh?

At one point a fox ran across the highway in front of us just narrowly missing being destroyed by a group of four bikers. Whew! That would have been fricasseed fox for sure...and the bikers would not have fared too well either.

Nevertheless it was a pretty drive.

We had planned to stop for the night at High Prairie but it was high hopes and low everything else. Fearing we had another 200 kilometres to Grande Prairie we were pleased to find a respectable inn in Valleyview about 60 kilometres after leaving High Prairie.

Tomorrow will be another unscheduled adventure. Who knows what central Alberta has to offer.  😎