We had to decide between highway 16 (a different highway than transcanada)east to Winnipeg and the QE2 south to Drumheller and dinosaur central for North America. Dude in the OPA! restaurant said Drumheller is like visiting moon (cool terrain) and I was sold. It helped that we found out Mitchell does not need to be back early to Toronto to register for high school.
Badlands turned out to be good ... descending into Drumheller was really cool. Royal Tyrell museum was filled to capacity but worth stopping under any circumstance. Excellent displays set to draw in audiences of all ages to a trip back in time to prehistoric Alberta ... a sea side tropical land bordering the Devonian Sea, with a cornucopia of large flesh eating dinosaur monsters battling it out for survival every day. Talk about the wild wild west ... makes to perils of the Chilikoot look like a walk in the park.
Leaving town we missed a turn and ended up staying down in the badlands for an extended tour on a brand new highway including a stop at Hoo Doos. Not "Hoo Dee" (Kara) but Hoo Doo (Alberta) ya think you are, mister big rock. Instruction here is that missing your turn off to the main hiway and staying on the back roads often turns out to be a good thing. Maybe we will all be forced to learn how to turn off "plot shortest time" or "plot shortest route" settings on the GPS technology that will surely be standard in every vehicle in the next few years.
Next is drive straight back to Ontario stopping at Medicine Hat (1); Winnipeg (1); Fort Frances (2); Thunderbay (2) ... maybe take interstate down to Port Huron / Sarnia for labour day.
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