Blowing into Broadview

SNM Tour Day #21

this was a big hairy black caterpillar day.........

Said goodbye to Joy (but really didn't, I'm still pretty happy) and left Regina with a nice early start.  Fought a headwind the entire day, no let up even for a few minutes.  The positives were that the sun was shining for the most part and the winds were quite pleasantly warm.  When we were about 40 kms outside of the city we got a call from CTV for an interview, they seemed rather surprised that we had left already. Steve caught up to us at about 80 kms and we did an interview and video shoot on the highway, which probably was quite a propos given the context of the tour.

Later in the day, I did an extensive interview with Annie for the Grenfell weekly paper - by all the questions and answers, I think the article will fill the entire newspaper. Another hour bucking even stronger winds and we finally made it to Broadview. Why did I call this a big black caterpillar day? - because I spent a lot of time crouched over on my tri-bars trying to be as aerodynamic as possible, which usually means staring at a lot of pavement (and not the horizon / sky) and I saw a lot of big black hairy caterpillars as a result.

Now if you've been following the blog you probably realize that Monique is a bit particular about her campsite selection, noise level, cleanliness etc. Well here in Broadview, it appeared that we had one choice, and one choice only.  Despite it being Saturday, this entire playground and campsite is entirely deserted, to be more specific, we are the only ones here and apart from the incessant wind, it is very, very peaceful and quiet.  This may be a good thing after a longer than expected cycle today.

Day Sponsor is Robert Hobbs.  Thanks again!

Random quotes for the day

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared

Jane Porter

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing

Catherine de Hueck

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire

Reggie Leach

(thanks Tom for this one - I like it a lot)

Random bits of knowledge gleaned from spending hours on a highway

So if I only found CDs on the highway from one artist, would that mean that 

A. this is a very popular artist?

B. the fan base of this artist are overly charitable?

C. the fan base of this artist like throwing things out of windows?

D. the artist has started a new marketing campaign which involves littering?

E. none of the above

You see the dilemma here. I have been keeping a mental tally of CDs (of which I have found no particular pattern of artist or musical genre), plastic bottles, cups and in particular beer cans / bottles.  McDonalds and Tim Hortons seem to have the monopoly on cups, Coke products on plastic bottles - with the exception of Gatorade bottles which appear to be particularly popular for filling with liquid human waste (aka urine - sorry) and throwing out.  When it comes to beer, and probably why I'm writing about all this, I have seen a particular trend developing in the last two days.  While Canadian was clearly the front runner, with Labatts Blue in second (Kokanee, Budweiser and various others trailing), you will be thrilled to know that Coors Light is making a strong bid for the top 2.  So is Canadian the most popular and just the most thrown out of windows?  Who knows, but I'll keep you posted on the tally - ??go Coors go??

Straight from the Rough Rider Gnome - 

"Win the Grey Cup? - no thanks, I couldn't accept the offer"

RIDER PRIDE!!