Moving

We helped Myron & Cyndi move from Sundre AB back to Winnipeg MB. The girls flew and the guys drove. Reg, Myron and I each had a vehicle to drive. Just before we left, we heard a little bit of scratching in the back of the moving truck. When we opened up the back, two kittens popped out! They just about relocated to Winnipeg.

We bought Walkie Talkies so we could communicate without having to always pull over. (Technical note: we purchased Cobra brand FRS/GMRS 2-way handheld radios. They advertised as having a 16km range--ya right! We were lucky if we got 1/2 km! Granted it said 16km under ideal conditions such as good weather and unobstructed line of sight, but that's what we had! We were in the prairies in sunny weather for crying out loud. Anyway, for any future walkie talkie buyers, you have been warned.)

The great thing about the prairies is that when you get tired, you can just find a quiet gravel road and sleep. So that's what we did. I've always wanted to camp in the median on a divided highway (you know the ones between Surrey and Hope). Well I guess my dream kinda came true because we pitched our tent in the middle of a divided highway. I say "kinda" because it hardly felt like it. There was a whole mile between the two directions of traffic. It was a nice quiet camping spot, free and alone, just the way I like it.

It took us two days of driving to get us from Sundre to Winnipeg. We had to go the speed limit. Not because we couldn't afford a ticket, but because if Myron went over 100, the moving truck would start to shake. And Myron & Cyndi's van gets the shakes around 110. My car (or my foot) is built such that it always wants to go 120km/h on the highway, so it was a constant fight to keep the speed down. On the plus side, we got no tickets.

After arriving in Winnipeg, Reg and I became "two small guys with big hearts" as we moved all their stuff into storage lockers. On our way back we may end up moving all that stuff once more if they find a house.