Day 25 - Friday, October 11

As we were heading down to breakfast Karen drew my attention to the sunrise. Sweet start to the day despite needing to crop the foreground out entirely. We're headed for Red Deer about a 5 hour drive away.

We bid a fond farewell to Medicine Hat as we pass the Saamis Tepee from the highway. Its gargantuan size sure makes it stand out.

The landscape was rolling prairie land just like coming in to MH a couple of days ago. Until we neared Castor (an oil town?  😅) then the Drumheller syndrome took effect, just came up out of nowhere.

After that it was not stimulating at all so I had to search for something with a bit of levity. Nailed it!

Believing things will be as you expect can be a mistake as was the case today with gas stations. We stopped (where the above tire man was) and got only $10 worth because it seemed awfully expensive. That turned out to be very lucky because we didn't find suitable services until we reached Deer Lake. I have to tip my hat to Ford on this one. In spite of all their short comings (our Escape is pretty pathetic) they got the fuel gauge perfect. Couldn't have cut this one much closer.

We have a nice little Airbnb somewhere in Red Deer. This is the way to go if you dislike hotels like I do. Airbnb trumps Vrbo (there's that horrible word again) because their host fees are about 1/5 of what Vrbo charges. This one will be great for us for two nights.

Host Dion has obviously given this a lot of thought!

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