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I worked a half-day today, but spoke with my director and explained that because we can't go as fast as we originally planned, I'm going to have to skip the other half-days planned this week and next Monday. We got away from Brandon about 11 AM.
Here was today's route. Google Maps said it should take four hours. It took us more than six hours, including restroom breaks and a refueling stop.
( Crossing the Prairie to Regina )
One of the pleasant surprises of the room is that the wired internet connection worked. While the wireless connection was a respectable 23 mbps down and 13 up, the wired connection was 437 down and 459 up! It made me wish we had video to upload. Lisa took the opportunity to download old television shows in which she was interested, as her computer has only a wired connection.
The air conditioning on the van mostly works, but the blower fan keeps failing. It fades out and then comes back on if we turn the AC back to vent for a while. And the engine continues to rattle in annoying ways. To keep the rattling down, we cannot exceed 100 kph.
Although we got to the hotel relatively early, we had a lot of things that ate up time. I ran out to get some small groceries before ordering a pizza, while Lisa got a bath. I also did a couple of loads of laundry, as we were running out of clean clothes. We did get fed and I got the laundry done, although some of it is still hanging up around the room as I write this because there were other people impatiently waiting to do their laundry as well.
One thing I had wanted to do was to soak in the hotel hot tub. I have had a pinched nerve causing pain down my left leg since the end of Pemmi-Con, and my muscles ache in a bunch of places. However, when I went to the pool area, it was badly crowded. Maybe if I'd gone to the hot tub instead of getting dinner, I would have had a chance to soak. And as the pool doesn't open until 9 AM tomorrow, I won't have a chance to do so tomorrow morning. Maybe in Lethbridge.
Yes, the goal tomorrow is Lethbridge, Alberta, which means tomorrow's trip is over 600 km, one of the longest legs of the entire trip. We must get away early tomorrow to have any hope of making it, and that means we must get sleep tonight.
Here was today's route. Google Maps said it should take four hours. It took us more than six hours, including restroom breaks and a refueling stop.
( Crossing the Prairie to Regina )
One of the pleasant surprises of the room is that the wired internet connection worked. While the wireless connection was a respectable 23 mbps down and 13 up, the wired connection was 437 down and 459 up! It made me wish we had video to upload. Lisa took the opportunity to download old television shows in which she was interested, as her computer has only a wired connection.
The air conditioning on the van mostly works, but the blower fan keeps failing. It fades out and then comes back on if we turn the AC back to vent for a while. And the engine continues to rattle in annoying ways. To keep the rattling down, we cannot exceed 100 kph.
Although we got to the hotel relatively early, we had a lot of things that ate up time. I ran out to get some small groceries before ordering a pizza, while Lisa got a bath. I also did a couple of loads of laundry, as we were running out of clean clothes. We did get fed and I got the laundry done, although some of it is still hanging up around the room as I write this because there were other people impatiently waiting to do their laundry as well.
One thing I had wanted to do was to soak in the hotel hot tub. I have had a pinched nerve causing pain down my left leg since the end of Pemmi-Con, and my muscles ache in a bunch of places. However, when I went to the pool area, it was badly crowded. Maybe if I'd gone to the hot tub instead of getting dinner, I would have had a chance to soak. And as the pool doesn't open until 9 AM tomorrow, I won't have a chance to do so tomorrow morning. Maybe in Lethbridge.
Yes, the goal tomorrow is Lethbridge, Alberta, which means tomorrow's trip is over 600 km, one of the longest legs of the entire trip. We must get away early tomorrow to have any hope of making it, and that means we must get sleep tonight.
