July 9 All in a Day

You may have noticed that we are fairly peppy in our travels. And this is mostly caffeine free. The tension between relaxing in a present comfortable place and moving on to new places & events down the road usually resolves by moving on. Yesterday we left the POWH 
and proceeded to Pincher Creek Alberta. I had been there some 40 years ago and did not remember much of it. Nice little town with a pioneer museum. We found a delicious little bakery and the best internet connection was sitting outside the library.
We went on to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. http://www.head-smashed-in.com/ This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a great presentation of the life of the plains Indians before horses. We arrived to catch the once a week Indian dance presentation and take in a genuine buffalo burger. This is a green and fruitful land now and I am sure it was then too. All of it would work for me except the -30 winter temperatures (C or F, its up to you, its still cold.)
Down the road waiting for us was Calgary and The Stampede.  http://calgarystampede.com/ Although I had been in Alberta a number of times I had only seen Calgary at 70 MPH form a car window. Susan had been there to a Stampede before and dragged me along. It is something like a big county fair (like the Los Angeles county fair) but with a lot of cowboys . Several were limping across the grounds. We catch the sheep shearing show, a dog show and listen to several different kinds of music. We eat non diet food, it seems like the diet will always start tomorrow. Its a great event, not tom miss if you are in the area or even as a destination trip.
On the way to our night stopover in Red Deer we stop at a Tim Horton’s restaurant, a first for us. This is a Canadian chain and is a cross between a coffee shop and a more serious food place. They have a great reputation with Canadians and their absence has been known to draw a tear whilst on travel out of the country. I think they are OK, their sandwich was OK, their soup excellent but they don’t seem to make good decaf coffee, maybe their regular stuff is better, I wish there were a Peet’s Coffee here.
After only a couple days we are becoming more Canadian, Like most US cars ours has kilometers as well as miles on the speedometer. I am now just about used to looking at the kilometer circle and matching it to the kilometer speed limit. But I think it will be along time before I get used to matching liters per kilometer to miles per gallon fuel consumption.