September 10, 2006 Day 110 226 miles to Medicene Hat, AB
Had a good night at this truck scale again. I was here 4 yrs ago, in May. Both times it was not in use and I did not get evicted. Interestingly, harvesting grain was going on in the adjacent field both times. Must have been winter wheat last time and regular type this time.
Royal Tyrell dinosaur museum had a few new exhibits and I enjoyed a 3 hr visit. The town is liberally decorated with dino statues includeing a"world's biggest T Rex at the visitors center. It looms over the downtown and can be seen for miles. Got a pic of a brontosaurus framework with the start of vines being trained to cover it as a topiary.
Next I went down the Red Deer river and viewed some hoodoos in the badlands that the river has carved out. Then on furthur downstream to the dinosaur provincial park in more badlands. This is the most productive dino dig in the world, so they say.
The countryside is great plains, somewhat rolling, with hay, grain cattle and oil wells.
Wildlife: lots of dinosaurs. herd of farmed buffalo. pronghorn antelope. hawk. pheasant. geese. ducks.
The 2ndary and tertiary roads are good quality but are severly lacking in turnouts.
Yesterday, I saw a ad for FlyingJ in Edmonton!
