Tonight Phil and I have dinner duty so we got an early start. I rolled out a few minutes before Phil. The plan is to see if there is a barbecue grill at our camp site and if so do hamburgers and potato salad.
Sunrise over the mountains.
Today's ride trends generally up hill all day with a downhill into Wikenberg at the end. But there is only about 1000 ft of climbing over about 45 miles of the ride so the grade is not much.
As expected the road conditions remained similar to the previous day. There was one section where it was dead straight for something like 20 miles. The scenery never changed the only way to measure progress visually was to watch the mountain range off to the left slowly move by.
This was the scene for most of the day. A long straight road disappearing over the horizon.
We camped at a very nice campground called the Horspatality RV Park. Of interest here is the proprietor was wearing a side arm. She was nice and very helpful. But the side arm was somewhat off-putting.
We camped on a very nice grassy area.
It turns out that they did have gas grill which required some creative methods of lighting. We used a cigarette lighter to light a stick on fire so we could light the grill as the push button didn't work.
We also were given a ride into town go get groceries by the husband of the proprietor. He was quite nice and gave us a quick tour of the downtown area on the way back to camp. If you ever need to camp in this area this is a very nice location and by far the best camping we have had on the trip so far.
We cooked planned hamburgers with potato salad and macaroni salad apple and pumpkin pie for dessert. No one complained so I think we did OK.
I was exhausted after that and went to bed as soon as I could. I woke in the middle of the night and took some Ibuprofen because my back was hurting. By morning it was feeling a lot better.
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