After a hearty breakfast in the hotel breakfast room we had
a staff meeting. This was a good opportunity
to cover a lot of the things which are going to be needed for the tour and
things which need to be finished before we start. One of the things which came up and I was
unaware of was that it is now required to carry bear spray when riding in the
back country. Seems to me that riding
with a bell would be a much better policy.
The bears would hear you coming for miles off and be long gone before
you got there as opposed to riding silently up surprising a bear and then fumbling with a bear spray canister which
has a very limited range. However I am sure that the vendors of bear spray
would sooner sell $40 containers of spray than $5 bells.
After the meeting Ken and I filled the water containers
which took us close to two hours to drag all the containers out and over to the
hose and drag all the water jugs back.
It may seem like that everyone is going to be well hydrated on the tour
but it is really surprising how much water 23 cyclists and 6 staff can drink on
a hot day.
I received a note from my good friend Texas Ken is coming up
to Calgary and would like to get together with Calgary Ken and myself tomorrow.
I immediately phoned him back and arranged to meet him. It will be good to see him as it has been way
too long seen we have had a visit.
After lunch there wasn’t much to do so Ken C, Jim and I
wandered over to the Canmore Show and Shine.
I was very pleasantly surprised at how many cars there were (close to
200), and the quality of cars. There
were quite a few rare examples of cars such as one of two 1966 Pontiac GTO
convertibles in the flame orange which was not a “Judge” There was a Studebaker
Avanti which was absolutely pristine. A genuine Cobra which was not a kit
car. The story of the show is that I
was looking at this very nice bright emerald green Kamann Gia convertible. As I was taking a picture of the car this
lady appeared out of the crowd and started chiding me for admiring this
car. “Don’t look at this car. Look at my car instead. “ she said. “Look at me, now look down there and tell me
which car is mine.” One look at her and
one look down the row and it was obvious.
She was dressed in matching yellow and crème to this stunning example of
a Nash Metropolitan. We walked around to admire her car, and it was
a beauty. What a fun car show and made even more so by meeting one of the local
car enthusiasts.
Terry
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