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Our next stop on our Journey took us to Saskatoon where we stayed downtown and were able to wheel and walk to the heart of the city.
Saskatoon is a modern city and expansion is evident when you walk, roll and drive through the downtown core. The river front location is most striking.
We stayed at the Delta Beswood in the Downtown area and were treated very well by the staff.
The restaurant was excellent and the Chef personally addressed our group during our breakfast on the last morning wishing us well and becoming yet another messenger.
After a memorable News Event in Vermillion we moved on to our next stop which was Lloydminister Alberta.
The days have been long for us and a lot has happened on the road. There have been repairs to the hand cycles, adjustments to the brakes and the occasional flat tire to repair.
We did start out on our journey with a number of spare parts but those have been diminished and tubes have become in short supply. We thought we would be able to buy tires and tubes on the road but this has proven to be difficult due to the speciality nature of the tires and high pressure racing tubes we are using.
After rereading my previous blog and receiving an email from Tranquility Base I decided to write an explanation and apology to the towns I dumped on.
Firstly it is a very difficult job crossing Canada away from family and loved ones and our expectations are at times high and maybe not attainable.
Secondly just maybe our lines of communication are not perfecrt and things don’t get done that we thought had been done for us. After reading my blog again it became evident to me that I was unfair to the mayors offices in the larger cities.
Hope everybody had a great Canada Day. We spent our day visiting a wonderful small town on the Trans Canada Highway called Vermillion where we were greeted by the Deputy Mayor Ben Bosgra and the local newspaper reporter.
This was our kind of town, small, friendly and open to strangers. Ben welcomed us warmly to his town and the pride he held in his town was evident. Ben did his homework and had done some of his own research into spinal cord regeneration and shared it with us. We had a informative long chat and press interview for the local newspaper
The title of this blog came to me because of a comment sent to me by my Daughter saying she hadn’t heard from me on the blog in six days.
Firstly it sounds like the makings of a hit Song title to me that I personally could sink my teeth into and I’m sure a lot of truck driver’s families can relate to the title.
Secondly it has been a very busy six days since my last blog. We have since the great divide rolled through Calgary and were hardly noticed by the citizens of Calgary too busy with their day to day lives and the upcoming Calgary Stampede to take the time to notice 4 Paraplegics rolling through their town without a horse. Yes that’s right without a horse because we had asked to be included in their festivities for this years stampede but were turned down ( you guessed it )because we didn’t have a horse.
