Started later (about 10:45 local time) to miss the rain. Got up at 8:00 and it was raining, so I went back to bed for a while. The rain had stopped, but there were low clouds and it was overcast.
It was a nice cool drive early with the clouds clearing some. The drive on Hwy 40 through "Kanaskis Country" was beautiful. It follows that Canadian Rockies and the Continental Divide for about 70 miles.
The weather started to change once I headed into "the prairies" as the locals like to call them. Got on Hwy 22 which is called the Cowboy Trail and it is very similar to Texas. Lots of cattle ranches and hay fields. It was along here that I got into some heavy rain for about 45 miles. At least the road was mainly straight and I was not in the mountains. After these rains, it started to clear up a bit.
The last 20 miles or so heading into Babb was "open range", cows and horses were just grazing along the highway. There were signs to watch out for them, so they didn't get out of a fenced in area. A little weird
Traveled 259 miles on day 9 for a total of 3275 and the temperature range was only 45-50 the entire day. It's gonna seem hot in Texas when I get back.
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