{"id":5453,"date":"2019-05-31T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2019-06-01T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T18:05:24","slug":"to-calgary-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2019\/05\/31\/to-calgary-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"to Calgary and beyond.."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From Milk River we drove to Claresholm and stayed for one night.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a really nice community park in the middle of the small town.\u00a0\u00a0 Lush mowed grass all around,\u00a0 a couple baseball diamonds and 22 RV sites.\u00a0\u00a0 It \"\"<\/a>was Memorial Day in the States, but this little gem was practically empty.\u00a0\u00a0 The town provided the WiFi there, so it was pretty good till it dropped around 5 pm then showed back up at 8 pm.\u00a0 I guess the AP’s needed a reboot or something.\u00a0 Anyway, \"\"<\/a>I was planning on staying there for a couple nights, but Kathy had a different idea.\u00a0 She wanted to get to somewhere we could sightsee.\u00a0 So the next morning we drove the couple hours to Calgary and are currently staying in a big grass field across the street from the \"\"<\/a>Grey Eagle Casino.\u00a0\u00a0 We are boondocking in a pretty large field.\u00a0 Lots of grass and practically no one here either.\u00a0\u00a0 Last night there was one 5th wheel trailer \"\"<\/a>sans truck and two minivans.\u00a0 This morning we woke up, only 1 minivan left and a Nissan SUV of some sort.\u00a0\u00a0 After touring the city, the other minivan is gone, so just the SUV and the trailer are here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first morning there, we drove downtown to check out the sky tower and Stephen Avenue.\u00a0 Parking in downtown Calgary near Stephen Avenue is difficult.\u00a0 We eventually got a space on the street only a block south and a block from the sky tower. The tower didn’t allow pets, so they weren’t getting \"\"<\/a>our $36 entrance fee.\u00a0 So we walked over to Stephen Avenue.\u00a0 It is a few blocks long and mostly blocked off to cars. Oddly it’s not all blocked off though. One of the blocks in the middle had a car pass by us.<\/p>\n

We arrived right at lunch hour and the street was packed \"\"<\/a>with office workers heading out for lunch. There are lots of restaurants on both sides of the street and almost everyone had an outdoor patio.\u00a0 Each one we passed had no empty tables and the food looked delicious!<\/p>\n

We found this nice large park at the eastern terminus of the street.\u00a0 There were lots of kids wading into the huge water feature\/fountain.\u00a0\u00a0 After all, it was 25 degrees celsius\u00a0 and everyone was walking around like it was mid summer.\u00a0\u00a0 One gal I talked to said we had just missed a snow storm.\u00a0 (I’m thankful for that!!)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I did get to stop and talk to the local constable.\u00a0 I noticed he was packing a Glock and a taser that also looked similar to his Glock.\u00a0 It appeared to me he was carrying two pistols.\u00a0 He said they all (the police) carry guns in Canada and are allowed to carry them off duty, but not really.\u00a0 He mentioned if you do carry it off duty, you will get into all sorts of trouble with the bosses.\u00a0 Sort of odd, I bet if they stumble upon a robbery while off duty and don’t have their service weapon, they would also catch hell for not having it..\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

All the highways in Calgary are under major construction.\u00a0 At least that is how it seems.\u00a0 It’s a real mess.\u00a0 I guess due to the weather it all must happen the few months of the year that it’s warm enough to work outside, but this is over the top.\u00a0\u00a0 We were planning on spending tomorrow at the Heritage Park Historical Village, but Kathy just read no pets allowed there either.\u00a0 Darn, another $58 I am not able to add to the local economy.\u00a0\u00a0 Geez, but we liked the free camping.\u00a0\u00a0 I really like Calgary… just not all the road construction and detours that go with it.<\/p>\n

After we came back to the RV, I decided to get started on the rock guard I am making that goes between the rear of the RV and the front of Kathy’s car we pull behind us.\u00a0\u00a0 For today I just painted the 6′ x 1″ square steel tubing, and after that dried I installed a rubber foot on each end so that when it’s mounted and I bang into it, I won’t tear my clothes or legs..\u00a0\u00a0 Next I have to drill 7 holes thru it to mount the large U bolt that will hold it to the hitch receiver and 5 eye bolts that will hold down the nylon mesh via many feet of bungee cord I brought.<\/p>\n

Drilling the holes is going to be interesting as I don’t have a vice to hold the bar to drill thru it.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I am thinking I need to replace my drop receiver with a double receiver so I could mount a vice on the second receiver.\u00a0\u00a0 (maybe when we get home.)<\/p>\n

I then moved on to hooking the Raspberry Pi (RPI) to the coach’s network so whenever the coach has internet, the RPI will be able to upload all the solar information gathered to the web portal.<\/p>\n

Speaking of solar..\u00a0 Today was really sunny and the roof-mounted panels created all the power to charge the battery to 100% by 7 pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Last night the sun didn’t go down here till around 9:40 pm.\u00a0\u00a0 If the sun never sets in Alaska, I guess it will keep charging all night.\u00a0 Now wouldn’t that be really cool!<\/p>\n

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From Milk River we drove to Claresholm and stayed for one night.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a really nice community park in the middle of the small town.\u00a0\u00a0 Lush mowed grass all around,\u00a0 a couple baseball diamonds and 22 RV sites.\u00a0\u00a0 It was Memorial Day in the States, but this little gem was practically empty.\u00a0\u00a0 The town … <\/p>\n

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