Getting an early start, when you’re not a morning person, is somewhat easier when reality is running 2 hours behind you. Today was a mini-roadtrip day: head out to Drumheller, check out the Royal Tyrell Museum amongst the badlands.

On the way back we visited Wayne Alberta, settlement withs 11 bridges and a total population of 27. Not particularly exciting.

Since I’ve not seen much of rural Canada outside of the Hwy 7/401/417 corridors, I was quite impressed at the scale of the farm operations on the way to Drumheller, single fields that rivaled the entire area of the experimental farm in Ottawa. And while there’s some lumps on the ground (given the proximity to the Rockies), overall the terrain is remarkably flat. What was a little disheartened to see was a dearth of ‘pump-jacks’, y’know – those lumbering oil pumps with the rocking beam, Bill said there’s more of them south of Calgary.

Is this rapeseed?