Guess Who Is From Winnipeg.... Neil Young - Sort Of ..

Howdy Folks,

Yes, the Guess Who is from Winnipeg and, maybe more importantly to me, this is where Neil Young found his muse before meeting Stephen Stills in Thunder Bay and then going to LA.

The Guess Who was Canada’s first big rock phenomenon – the song that broke them south – American Woman – go figure.

Well the prairie crossing from Calgary to Winnipeg was flat, straight and extremely boring – just like my first girlfriend – it’s exhilarating, and life threatening, out here on the edge folks.

The first three hours from Calgary to Medicine Hat were wet snow and slush – the worst weather of the trip so far – within an hour after Medicine Hat, it had cleared sufficiently for high-speed motoring.

Just outside of Medicine Hat we almost hit a meteorite, or a piece of kryptonite, that had impacted in the highway. Luckily Brett and I avoided that – did NASA lose anything earlier today?

Around Chaplin, we drove by a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve – I took a picture of a large crane of some variety – I don’t know what it was but I would pay big money to be there when it takes off!!

Also took a picture of another rare bird along the way – very tall and apparently grazing or testing the air temperature. It is amazing that when you leave Calgary and travel to Winnipeg there is so much ‘nothing’ – the landscape along Highway 1 varies little and the road even less. I had been told about this but was still amused to see it for myself. This road must follow the old voyageurs/trapping route because there were a number of names that I recognized from history lessons long ago and Radisson and Degroseilliers kept coming to mind.

Winnipeg seems a world away from Calgary, Vancouver, and the coast – the difference is dramatic and, not so much depressing, as something that feels it might deserve better, if it dared to dream.

Brett and I had dinner at Grapes tonight – check out their menu here - http://www.grapes.ca/aboutus.html

The food was good – nothing to report on the beer front – I think we have run out of any new experiences in that regard – I may be wrong though – I often am.

Onward tomorrow.

The adventure continues ….