May 29, 2019
Today we are leaving Cowley and heading for the Cypress Hills Provincial Park. Our plans are to camp in the park today and tomorrow and then head into Medicine Hat to visit with Carol and John. Carol and Debbie hung around together in school. We would be seeing them later this week.
We packed up the trailer, stowed Debbie’s sewing machine in the SUV. We said goodbye to Willie and Clive and began another leg of our eastern journey. A strong southern wind blew all day and when we turned off of Hwy 3 to head south, we really the noticed the truck laboring as we headed directly into the strong south wind.
We arrived in Elkwater, in the Cypress Hills InterProvincial Park, in the mid afternoon and secured a site right on the edge of the Elkwater Lake.
After warming up two small dinners of left over Boston Pizza spaghetti and fettuccini we watched a small herd of mule deer grazing on the hills. We then walked the shoreline for approximately 5 kms. and studied the marsh birds flying in the evening air. The sun dropped behind the foothills and the temperature dropped forcing us to go inside and to go to bed.
Quilting in a Kayak 
Hi Bill and Debbie! I may have missed it in a previous blog but sounds like the trip to the NWT is on “hold?”
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Hi Jeff and Meg, Yeah it looks like the NWT is on hold. We aren’t sure if we are going that way. The smoke has been unbelievable even in the south of Alberta. We are heading to Rocky Mountain House area tomorrow and then on to Jasper. Will probably head to Edmonton after that then across to Sask. Edmonton has smoke advisors out so we will see if it is still bad we may even miss that till later. Being flexible!!!
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