Alberta, then Home!

After our Saskatoon break, it was onwards to Edmonton. We arrived bright and early and delivered our freight. Dispatch was looking for a Vancouver bound load for us, but couldn't come up with one on Monday, so we ended up spending Monday night in Calgary, bound for Coaldale, which is just east of Lethbridge. After Lethbridge, we were directed back to Calgary, and picked up granite counter tops going to Edmonton.

So we ended up back in Edmonton Tuesday night, and delivered first thing Wednesday morning. A load to Vancouver materialized, and we were at the warehouse by 8:30 local time, ready to load. They weren't ready for us, and asked that we return in about 90 minutes. Back to the truck stop we went, and had a not very healthy but oh so tasty breakfast buffet, and Mike fueled up for the trip home. Diesel is less expensive in Edmonton than gasoline...that's the only place where it isn't more costly. We made our way back to the warehouse and found four other trucks there. It turned out that the company was moving to a larger warehouse that day, and not only were they moving their inventory, but also trying to ship freight. It was chaos. We'd hoped to be on our way by noon, but didn't pull out of their yard till 3:30 p.m. We had to tarp the load, and as there was a stiff wind blowing, it took over an hour with both of us working on it. I have no idea how poor Mike manages to tarp by himself.

We stopped for the night in Hinton, and walked down the main street, exhausted and hungry in the rain, and found a self-serve restaurant that had declious calamari and greek salad. The rain stopped after dinner, and we nestled into our beds around 8:00 p.m.

The alarm woke us at 2:30 a.m., and after stumbling inside to use the loo, I settled back to bed while Mike drove. I woke around 5:30, and climbed into the passenger seat just in time to see a black bear at the riverbank that runs beside the road. Five minutes later, we saw another bear. Mike spotted a moose but I missed it. A few km further there was another bear, and after a coffee stop in Blue River, we saw a fourth one!

We arrived home just after 8:30. I am here to stay, but Mike had to carry on later to Surrey to deliver. The truck is being worked on in Langley today, and Mike will be home for a week off late tonight.