Day 19 - Calgary to Moose Jaw, SK

This morning was quite cool at 45F. Michele started out the day wearing all her heated gear. The skies were mostly clear with only a few clouds. We set off around 8:15am heading east on TC 1. This was the first time in over 19 days when we had the morning sun in our eyes. 

Today’s terrain was significantly different fro the last week. We were out of the mountains and out on the plains. The vast majority of the farms appeared to be livestock. Mostly cattle but we saw a good number of sheep at one farm. Michele and Rob wondered how long it would take to sheer all those sheep.

We stopped in Medicine Hat for lunch. The temps after lunch had risen to the upper 60s but the clouds were increasing as was the wind.

As we continued east, the wind picked up. Fortunately the wind was coming out of the Northwest and mostly pushing us down the rode. This was a far better situation than when were last on TC 1 back in 2015. Then we were heading west into the wind.

As we got closer to Moose Jaw, we began to see small rolling hills and rode past two large lakes with plenty of birds.

We arrived in Moose Jaw at 5pm. The bikes were a mess with all the bugs so it took Rob and Jerry a bit longer to clean off the bikes. Once checked in and the bike debugging complete, we walked over to a the Rock Creek restaurant for dinner.

Tomorrow we leave Canada as we continue our march east.