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Photo by Marc Gibaud, Clouds on Tres Cerros and Mount Fitzroy, Argentinian Patagonia

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Mount Fitzroy, Argentinian Patagonia



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The flight back is another quick 90 min and Trevor picked us up. We headed into the city for a bit of a walk along the river and then went to pick up Guðmundur.


You might remember him as the rider from Iceland that we knew on line, but met randomly on the way to Ushguli Georgia and then again in Ulan Ude Russia. He saw our post about Peter’s drive in with Trevor and messaged us that he will arrive today to Calgary on his way back from Alaska. He is shipping his bike from there to Frankfurt on Tuesday. We had a nice dinner out and heard all about his trip.



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Calgary-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Calgary-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

We have check out the forecast today and as we are trying to “thread the needle” to get thru the Rockies with the best conditions it looks like tomorrow is the day. This means today we will ride to see a few folks even thought it is 3 degrees and drizzling.



Screen Shot 2018-09-18 at 20.20.24 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We set out west on the #1 first to Bowness to see Dan’s Aunt Annamieka . We had learned that his Uncle was very sick when we were in Toronto and decided to speed out trip to try and see him. He unfortunately passed away just after we left Toronto towards Calgary. We were sad to miss him, but still happy to be able to visit with the family.

Screen Shot 2018-09-18 at 20.09.55 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

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It is now 2 degrees and we rode further west to the #22 and then south to Bragg Creek and west again to Pridis. On the way here it was 1.5 degrees!!



We arrived to the home of Blaine and Lenka who had a nice wood fire stove stoked up for us. Blaine we first met in Banos Ecuador in 2013 and then again in Ushuaia in 2014. He has been to SA and even Ushuaia several times and the last in 2017 with Lenka. It was so nice to finally meet her. She even knows Orvar as they were on the Stahlratte together in 2013. She prepared us a very delicious lunch and Blaine talked with “word gusts” up to 15 words per second. Actually we had a great time hearing telling and listening to each others stories.

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It is now 430 pm and about 2 degrees. We have a back track to the 22 and then the Springbank road to the home of Dan’s aunt and uncle Ruth and Gordon. They warmly welcomed us with an open garage to park the bike and a delicious meal. We had a lovely evening to visit them.

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Looking at the weather, the highway cams, and pavement thermometers along our route today look like it will be optimal as predicted. This is a 24 hour window of warmer weather.

Screen Shot 2018-09-18 at 20.22.55 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Setting out from Springbank it was 6 degrees, but it warmed up to 8 by the time we got to the Banff National Park.
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At the Alberta 93 we “connected the lines” when we passed under the Icefields Parkway overpass.

FILE3578 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


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Canada-11 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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It was a bit colder between Banff and lake Louise down to 4, but when we got stopped for 30 min for blasting near 15 km from Field it was 3.5 and we had to do some jumping jacks. In total we had 4 traffic delayed for construction of the twinning of the highway and today this cost us over an hour.

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We made it to Golden to the Husky for lunch and it was 12 degrees. We are now on the down hill in the rockies with temps 10-12 all the way to Revelstoke.



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In Revi we found a decent place and it is 600 m from our favorite bar with a great steak dinner.

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