What a great day to be road tripping across the country … Canada Day!! Could it be more appropriate?!
Today’s goal: Get to Calgary in time to see Jim Cuddy at Olympic Plaza and take in the fireworks!
Well, the day started off on the wrong foot. We had ordered our brekkie to be brought to our room for 9:30am so we could be on the road for around 11:00am since we had some exciting places to visit before heading to Calgary! But when 10:10am rolled around I feared the worst, they had forgotten our yummy, very eagerly anticipated breakfast order. A call to the front desk confirmed it and this little chicky was not impressed! So, after check gout of the lovely Regina Inn, it was off to see a few sighs about town (The Mosaic Stadium, Victoria Square and most of Downtown Regina … its pretty small lol!) and on to the nearest Timmies. Now, to be honest with you all, at this point I am getting a little sick of bagels and cheddar, I know, I never thought I would ever say that but I have and I was … so since there was a Sobey’s right across the street, I managed to pick up a yummy fruit salad and some apples and I was fully happy and ready to start the days ride…
First stop: Rouleau, SK: Saskatchewan's First 1 Million Bushel Town (whatever that means lol!) My interest in Rouleau is this … its home to Corner Gas!!!! Yuppers, that’s right, we went 30 minutes out of our way, along a long, dusty dirt road to the small, tiny town of Rouleau. And it was SO worth it! There was no one there and so we got to run all over the set of Corner Gas and The Ruby. Then we went into the actual town and saw the Dog River Police Station, The Foo M rt, The Howler, The Dog River Hotel and Oscar & Emma’s! It was great! Totally loved it.
After spending a whopping 20 min there, that’s all that it took to see everything, we were back on the road.
Stopped in Moose Jaw to pose with a giant moose name Mac and a rest stop and back on the road … and then it happened … I had been wondering when it was going to and thought maybe that we would have somehow escaped it, but I was wrong. About 5 minutes after getting back on the highway we saw the flashing lights … yup, we were getting pulled over by the lovely Moose Jaw police! Phil got nailed doing 118 in an 80 … and please, ask us when it was 80 since the whole ride on the Trans-Canada thus far had been 110 … well, I guess there is a 30 second stretch where its 80 and that’s where we got nailed! BUGGERS!! So after wasting 20 min at the side of the road, we got our ticket and SLOWLEY started up again.
Crossed over into Alberta about 5:15pm and we switched over to me driving thought to Calgary in Medicine Hat. Speed demon that I am, I got us into Calgary, without any issues around 8:00pm. Now that was into Calgary, finding the hotel was another situation. Damn they have a ton of one way streets in that cow town and since it was Canada Day ½ of them were closed off and it made for a great ½ hour adventure before finding the hotel.
Once we checked in and washed off the grim of the day’s travels, it was off to see Mr. Jim Cuddy. We strolled down Stephens Street, taking in all the action and people and found a great place to park it and listen to the tunes. Then it was firework time!! After all of that, we headed out to find us some grub … something that was much harder than one would think at 11:30pm on a Sunday night - lol! Managed to get a burger and throw back a few beers at The Unicorn Pub and then stumbled home to crash out ….
Today’s goal: Get to Calgary in time to see Jim Cuddy at Olympic Plaza and take in the fireworks!
Well, the day started off on the wrong foot. We had ordered our brekkie to be brought to our room for 9:30am so we could be on the road for around 11:00am since we had some exciting places to visit before heading to Calgary! But when 10:10am rolled around I feared the worst, they had forgotten our yummy, very eagerly anticipated breakfast order. A call to the front desk confirmed it and this little chicky was not impressed! So, after check gout of the lovely Regina Inn, it was off to see a few sighs about town (The Mosaic Stadium, Victoria Square and most of Downtown Regina … its pretty small lol!) and on to the nearest Timmies. Now, to be honest with you all, at this point I am getting a little sick of bagels and cheddar, I know, I never thought I would ever say that but I have and I was … so since there was a Sobey’s right across the street, I managed to pick up a yummy fruit salad and some apples and I was fully happy and ready to start the days ride…
First stop: Rouleau, SK: Saskatchewan's First 1 Million Bushel Town (whatever that means lol!) My interest in Rouleau is this … its home to Corner Gas!!!! Yuppers, that’s right, we went 30 minutes out of our way, along a long, dusty dirt road to the small, tiny town of Rouleau. And it was SO worth it! There was no one there and so we got to run all over the set of Corner Gas and The Ruby. Then we went into the actual town and saw the Dog River Police Station, The Foo M rt, The Howler, The Dog River Hotel and Oscar & Emma’s! It was great! Totally loved it.
After spending a whopping 20 min there, that’s all that it took to see everything, we were back on the road.
Stopped in Moose Jaw to pose with a giant moose name Mac and a rest stop and back on the road … and then it happened … I had been wondering when it was going to and thought maybe that we would have somehow escaped it, but I was wrong. About 5 minutes after getting back on the highway we saw the flashing lights … yup, we were getting pulled over by the lovely Moose Jaw police! Phil got nailed doing 118 in an 80 … and please, ask us when it was 80 since the whole ride on the Trans-Canada thus far had been 110 … well, I guess there is a 30 second stretch where its 80 and that’s where we got nailed! BUGGERS!! So after wasting 20 min at the side of the road, we got our ticket and SLOWLEY started up again.
Crossed over into Alberta about 5:15pm and we switched over to me driving thought to Calgary in Medicine Hat. Speed demon that I am, I got us into Calgary, without any issues around 8:00pm. Now that was into Calgary, finding the hotel was another situation. Damn they have a ton of one way streets in that cow town and since it was Canada Day ½ of them were closed off and it made for a great ½ hour adventure before finding the hotel.
Once we checked in and washed off the grim of the day’s travels, it was off to see Mr. Jim Cuddy. We strolled down Stephens Street, taking in all the action and people and found a great place to park it and listen to the tunes. Then it was firework time!! After all of that, we headed out to find us some grub … something that was much harder than one would think at 11:30pm on a Sunday night - lol! Managed to get a burger and throw back a few beers at The Unicorn Pub and then stumbled home to crash out ….
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