Gettin' ready to road trip solo!

Yep, this time next week I will be cruising the open road to southern Alberta. Destination: Lethbridge for a family wedding. I will be gone a week. After the wedding I plan to drive around Southern Alberta finding every hill I can find to do some hill training for Scotland. I know where I will be staying each night but during the day where will I go? Who knows? I am going to leave that up to the weather and my moods. Friday will be a straight through drive to Lethbridge (with perhaps a short walk in Medicine Hat to stretch my legs). Family obligations will no doubt keep me busy until Sunday evening (although I do plan to go for a long walk every morning!) but Monday morning I plan do some exploring. I am quite excited with a bit of nervousness thrown in as well. For all my traveling around the world I don't have a lot of experience with road trips on my own. I think the furthest I have driven on my own in one go was in Newfoundland - probably four hours or so. This is longer. Road trips are not my favourite way to travel.....I trust an airline pilot much more than I trust the other drivers on the road. It will be nice however to stop the car when I want to take photographs. I think this will be so good for me and who knows maybe I will be all set to plan more solo road trips when I get home.

I am hoping to go mad with my photography... and I am hoping NOT to see any rattle snakes....I will be walking the coulees and they like the coulees....needless to say I will be wearing my hiking boots.

I've booked a couple of bed and breakfasts which will be fun. One is on a farm near Swift Current...which is my parents "stomping grounds".

I am busy picking out the CD's I will be blasting as I cruise along the highway - now Sirius radio would be really nice too....always fun to see what kind of rental car they give me.

I hope to blog along the way so stay tuned for my adventures!!!!

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